Chinese Workers at Walmart Campaign For Higher Wages, Union Elections
Source: Radio Free Asia
An attempt by employees of Walmart in China to take charge of their labor union to negotiate collectively on behalf of workers has already run into difficulties, a Walmart employee told RFA.
Zhang Liya, an employee at a branch of Walmart in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, told RFA he has tried to use elections at the company's own labor union to elect someone who will genuinely press for higher wages for workers at Walmart's more than 400 stores in China, rather than just nodding along with management.
"Walmart has been in China for 20 years now, and our wages are getting lower and lower; and they're rising more slowly than the city-wide minimum wage for Shenzhen," he said.
According to Zhang and other labor activists, the state-run All-China Federation of Trade Unions doesn't represent the interests of us workers, frequently taking the side of management and local government.
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Chinese workers sit in a tricycle in Beijing, Sept. 19, 2015.
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