Wal-Mart workers in China have set up unions at all 62 outlets that the world's biggest retailer operates here in what a senior Chinese trade union official described Thursday as a breakthrough for organized labor. After overcoming stiff resistance from Wal-Mart, which has long fought to bar unions from its stores and distribution centers, the official All China Federation of Trade Unions now plans to focus on other companies in China it accuses of being traditionally hostile to unions, including Foxconn Electronics, Eastman Kodak and Dell.
See "Unions triumphant at Wal-Mart in China", David Lague, International Herald Tribune, October 12, 2006