December 30, 2003 10:35 AM

What good's a union if the bosses run it?
Posted by Jason Butlerat 10:35 AM

Unions in China are trying to organize, but their efforts are thwarted by the authorities.

China's socialist laws theoretically protect workers even as the country embraces capitalist ways. But the police crush efforts to set up independent unions as threats to the Communist Party. Many workers say the sole legal state-run union is a charade, a feckless bureaucracy that has only the pretense of representing the proletariat.

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