Posts Tagged ‘China’

For The Win: Cory Doctorow and The RJ-45 Trousered Philanthropists

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

For The Win - UK hardback coverCory Doctorow has a new young-adult novel out, and it’s something that union organisers and communicators very much need to read.

For The Win meshes together the lives of people working in and around MMORPGS, the massively multiplayer online role-playing games which grow in size and value every year. Set about ten minutes into the future, it shows how these virtual worlds have developed virtual economies, with people who work in them, legally and illegally. (more…)

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Slow boat to China

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Fantastic demonstrations of solidarity with Zimbabwe from the Namibia Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, where unions have stepped up when government failed to act. A great example.

Mad Bob’s guns are on their way back to China in an alternative international relay just in time for the Olympics, and Thabo Mbeki has seen what his people really think of his stance – from a long way behind them.

Mind you, dockers round the world have a habit of doing that.

And we can all do a little bit too.

UPDATE 7/5/8: Very bad news (if it’s true, and not the regime trying to save face) from Blogger News Network

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The Great Wal-Mart of China

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Yes indeed, in this week’s top ‘believe it or not’ story (here on Al Jazeera), capitalist running pig-dog lackeys Wal-Mart are now trading in China. Apparently it’s going well, and they’ve even celebrated by setting up their own branch of the Communist Party for staff.

Yes, you read that right – Wal-Mart are digging into their pocket to do their bit in helping spread Communism. We know from the US that they’re keen on state provision when it means they can avoid paying themselves for little extras like their healthcare obligations to staff, but this is a pretty hefty about turn ;)

And it doesn’t stop there. There’s a Chinese Wal-Mart union too. The firm that does so much to avoid unions at home hasn’t been able to get around Chinese laws requiring employers to let employees form a union if there are more than 25 of them that wish to. Let’s hope that’s one more ‘made in China’ that makes it back to Wal-Mart’s shelves in the States.

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