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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…
See also Eric's article from June 2021, 'Qatar, the ITUC and the strange case of Malcolm Bidali' In early December, the newly-elected leader of the International Trade Union Confederation, Luca Visentini, was arrested in Brussels as part of a major police operation targeting members of the European Parliament. Visentini was released conditionally after a couple of days and temporarily stepped aside from his new job.
An EU investment deal and a trip by the UN human rights chief are part of the equation, analysts say.
Frank Hoffer Frank Hoffer is a former ILO official, an associate fellow of the Global Labour University and an adviser to the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). Articles by this author (1) 8 July 2021
Alongside working to confront Lukashenka, the EU should offer respite to those threatened by his dictatorship.