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Series: Labour Perspectives on China #8 -Frank Hoffer As the ACFTU is not a trade union by any standards, why does the Chinese regime feel the need to have such a pseudo-trade union at all?  This has historic, ideological and foreign policy reasons. A so-called socialist state has to have a mass organisation of the…

Series: Labour Perspectives on China #4 -Ambet Yuson and Tos Q. Añonuevo The global dominance of Chinese construction companies means that their engagement with trade unions is also large-scale and pervasive. For the global union Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), organising workers in these major contractors for infrastructure projects worldwide has become a strategic…