China's Labor Pains

摘要

When I was working on the supply side, I would talk with other North American suppliers about the "China situation" and sometimes joke, "Where is Jimmy Hoffa when we need him?" But here we are a few years later, and the idea is not so farfetched. Unfortunately, instead of independent and competing organizations, the labor union in China is the party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Still, even great progress can start in tiny steps.