China is allowing trade unions and collective bargaining

KYOTO / SHENYANG - An official with the International Labour Organization (ILO) said Collective bargaining can help reduce labor disputes in the world's largest manufacturing nation, said .

Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO regional director for Asia and the Pacific, told China Daily that dialogue and collective bargaining are important to ensure that workers are properly paid.

China plans to introduce collective negotiations in 80 percent of the enterprises that have unions by 2013, It plans to set up unions in at least 90 percent of its companies by that year.

Multinational corporations are among the first batch of companies asked to unionize.

Among about 4,800 plants set up by Fortune 500 companies in China, 93 percent have already established unions, according to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

The outlet of Swedish home furnishings retailer Ikea in Shenyang recently agreed to a wage increase mechanism for workers under a collective contract.

Among 49 Fortune 500 companies that have invested in Shenyang, 47 have introduced collective negotiations, Duan Yang, vice-chairwoman of Shenyang Federation of Trade Unions, said:

Collective negotiations are beneficial to both employers and employees. An enterprise's growth needs laborers, and at the same time, only when workers' interests are protected can the enterprise sustain growth,


But Duan said that although collective contracts were signed at most companies, clauses about wage increases were not clearly stated in some of them. She noted:

Many disputes are about pay rises, and that's what enterprises care about most and also what we want to help workers with. 

Although trade unions and collective bargaining are allowed in China, strikes are not. However, Chinese workers have been known to be harsh with managers that have cheated or insulted them. 

Worker conditions are very different from those in the US. 


http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-12/09/content_14235725.htm

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Ohio expected to repeal GOP law on public collective bargaining

11/7/2011

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By Doug Cunningham

[Lee Saunders]: "I'm really excited about it, I think our folks from across the state are excited and I expect a huge victory." 

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders, who's on the ground in Ohio as Ohio votes on the repeal of the Republican attack on public worker collective bargaining. Saunders says the movement to repeal the collective bargaining attack is crackling with energy.

[Lee Saunders 2]: "I've never felt the kind of energy that I'm seeing here.

We've been knocking on doors and making phone calls and leafleting at work sites and having rallies and pumping up our folks. And they understand the importance of this vote."

Saunders says AFSCME, all of labor and allied progressive and community groups are looking forward to continuing the fightback against attacks on working families in Wisconsin and nationwide.

[Saunders 3]: "We want to continue the fight,  not only in Ohio but in Wisconsin. And I think this just sends a strong message across the country when we win this that working families - people who are playing  by the rules every single day but cannot achieve that American Dream that they probably should be able to achieve - they're willing to make their voices heard and they're ready to fight back. This is much bigger than this state. And we plan on work to develop the necessary partnerships and coalitions so we can fight back like never before." 

By Doug Cunningham

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders, who's on the ground in Ohio as Ohio votes on the repeal of the Republican attack on public worker collective bargaining. Saunders says the movement to repeal the collective bargaining attack is crackling with energy. Saunder's said:

I'm really excited about it, I think our folks from across the state are excited and I expect a huge victory. 

AFSCME has been knocking on doors and making phone calls and leafleting at work sites and having rallies and pumping up our folks. And they understand the importance of this vote."

Saunders says AFSCME, all of labor and allied progressive and community groups are looking forward to continuing the fightback against attacks on working families in Wisconsin and nationwide. saoubders aded:

We want to continue the fight,  not only in Ohio but in Wisconsin. 

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AFL-CIO blog: 714,137 Ohioans Say Repeal S.B. 5

In an incredible mobilization, Ohio workers, activists and other volunteers collected 714,137 signatures in just two months for a November referendum to repeal a bill that eliminates the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 public employees.

That’s more than three times the number needed to qualify for the ballot.

Rightradia suggests we need more "rights at work"  states and fewer right to work states.

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WIN: Biggest Madison Labor Protest Yet As "Fab 14" Senators Return

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By Doug Cunningham

[Firemen Bagpipes & Drums]  

Well over 100,000 people demonstrated and marched for worker rights in Madison Wisconsin over the weekend during a daylong rally that included a Farm Labor Tractorcade. Fifty tractors joined firefighters, off-duty police, teachers and other people of all ages from every walk of life in solidarity against the gutting of collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin public workers.

[Cheers]: 

Wisconsin’s “Fab 14” state Democratic senators, who had been blocking a vote destroying public worker collective bargaining, returned to a hero’s welcome in Madison. Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller.

[Miller]: “We have returned to Wisconsin to thank the people who have with their voices, and their marches and their rallies here in Madison and around the state to protest the stripping away of the rights of employees in the state of Wisconsin. They have inspired us. They have created a new dynamic, a new political dynamic in the state of Wisconsin that says respect workers, respect citizens. We are here to join them in that fight.”

Senator Fred Risser is in his eighties and has been serving in the state senate since the 1950’s.

[Risser]: “The war is not over. The fight for workers’ rights is continuing. It’s a real privilege to participate in this. And I want to thank everyone who’s helped us on this. The people, the crowds around the capitol, we watched those on TV and they were stimulating to us and kept us going. It’s a remarkable experience and it’s not over yet.”

A robust effort to recall eight Republican state senators who voted to gut collective bargaining is underway. Money and signatures for the recalls – including one aimed at Governor Walker -were being collected at the rally.

[Rally nat Sound of protester and recall activist]

Wisconsin’s Democrat Secretary of State, Doug LaFollette, is delaying the collective bargaining law’s implementation by refusing to officially publish it later this month. The law doesn’t go into effect until March 26th - a day after he officially publishes it. That allows more time for legal challenges to the new law. 

By Doug Cunningham

Well over 100,000 people demonstrated and marched for worker rights in Madison Wisconsin over the weekend during a daylong rally that included a Farm Labor Tractorcade.

Fifty tractors joined firefighters, off-duty police, teachers and other people of all ages from every walk of life in solidarity against the gutting of collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin public workers.

Wisconsin’s “Fab 14” state Democratic senators, who had been blocking a vote destroying public worker collective bargaining, returned to a hero’s welcome in Madison. Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller.

Miller: We have returned to Wisconsin to thank the people who have with their voices, and their marches and their rallies here in Madison and around the state to protest the stripping away of the rights of employees in the state of Wisconsin. 

They have inspired us. They have created a new dynamic, a new political dynamic in the state of Wisconsin that says respect workers, respect citizens. We are here to join them in that fight.

Senator Fred Risser is in his eighties and has been serving in the state senate since the 1950’s.

Risser: The war is not over. The fight for workers’ rights is continuing. It’s a real privilege to participate in this. And I want to thank everyone who’s helped us on this. The people, the crowds around the capitol, we watched those on TV and they were stimulating to us and kept us going. It’s a remarkable experience and it’s not over yet.

A robust effort to recall eight Republican state senators who voted to gut collective bargaining is underway. Money and signatures for the recalls – including one aimed at Governor Walker -were being collected at the rally.

Wisconsin’s Democrat Secretary of State, Doug LaFollette, is delaying the collective bargaining law’s implementation by refusing to officially publish it later this month. The law doesn’t go into effect until March 26th - a day after he officially publishes it. That allows more time for legal challenges to the new law.

 
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