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ROBIN MUNRO, research director at the China Labour Bulletin, a rights-monitoring group, after Wal-Mart announced it would consider allowing unions in its 41 stores in China, something it has refused to do in any other nation, including...
...Trade Unions (ACFTU), the only legal labor organization in China. The ACFTU has struggled to gain a foothold in the country's booming private sector. "Imagine what American workers in Wal-Mart stores are going to say," says Robin Munro, research director at the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. "'Chinese workers living under communism are allowed to have unions in Wal-Mart stores, but we in America aren...
...Kennedy’s word for this. As the godfather of laissez-faire, Adam Smith, once wrote, “It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged...
...BANNED. FOX HUNTING, a 300-year-old English tradition, after seven years of bitter political debate and legislative maneuvering; by Britain's House of Commons; in London. Despite a last-minute compromise proposal from Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour Party members pushed through the ban on the grounds that fox hunting was cruel and inhumane. Hunt supporters have vowed to challenge...
...position of being more important than the member states," says Jonathan Evans, head of the Euro-skeptic British Conservative M.E.P.s. Evans volunteered that it had been "tempting" to oppose the Commission for the sheer partisan joy of voting against British nominee Peter Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour's victories, who is slated to become the Commissioner for Trade. Yet on this issue at least, Evans and Mandelson found themselves on the same side. At a dinner of senior Socialist group politicians on Tuesday evening, Mandelson called the group's intention to vote down the Commission "destructive, infantile...