According to local reports, Wal-Mart employees at a store in Shenzhen have set up the fifth union in the country in response to a national campaign to unionise all 60 of Wal-Mart’s Chinese outlets.
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Employees at two other Shenzhen stores along with stores in Nanjing and Quanzhou have set up Wal-Mart unions in the past two weeks, the official Xinhua News Agency and the Workers Daily newspaper reported.
Wal-Mart has taken a notoriously anti-union stance in its global operations. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the umbrella union organising workers, has accused Wal-Mart of attempting to block its efforts to unionise Wal-Mart’s Chinese employees.
Xinhua reported that an unnamed ACFTU official said the union’s effort at the latest Shenzhen store faced “repeated and various obstacles,” though it gave no further details.
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