From July 20th to 25th, the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions delegation held by the president Weiguang Chen made a visit to the trade union organizations of the United States such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington and so on.
The delegation arrived in the Berkeley of United States on July 20th, from 11:30am to 18:30pm; they met with eight labor groups. They introduced the effective operation of China trade unions from all parts, and explained the connotation of 'Chinese-style cell phone market economy' from the perspective of improving labor rights.
'The host thought that globalization was facing with the historical changes and U.S. trade unions and China trade unions need to associate with each other.' On the day when to depart, Weiguang Chen accepted our interview and said, since 2008, the trade unions of Guangzhou and San Francisco associated with each other, we have had a frequent interaction. At present, the world economy was threatened by the 'second bottom', coupled with the international attention on the relationship between workers and companies of Guangdong Foxconn and Honda, from early June, the San Francisco Federation of Trade Unions has invited the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions for many times as the subject of ' services communicating with each other, exchanging the views on labor rights', it was coordinated by superior, and made the trip come true at last.
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'American labor unions have been waiting for us to join them, and associated with them by city to city.' Weiguang Chen said that for this trip to US, they expressed the hope that this invitation can reach a 'substantial results' once again, 'but we think there is still distance to come to the (association) level.'
Weiguang Chen told the reporters that the topic raised by San Francisco trade unions is that they associated with the Guangdong trade union to adjust the OEM cell phone prices to China of Apple. Apple is the biggest brands of Foxconn, is headquartered in San Francisco. Local trade unions recognized that in the incident of falling off building in Shenzhen, the responsibility of Apple is greater than the agent manufacturer, has not stopped putting pressure on it.
Chen recalled that when they visited Los Angeles in 2008, the local port trade unions have strongly suggested that the shipping route from Guangzhou Nansha Port to the Port of Los Angeles has become very important to many world-class commercial. The two trade unions could work together, if the owner had rude attitude to the Nansha Port, Los Angeles can be take measures to resist, and vice versa, so that the labor may ' have a reasonable voice on the FOB and the CIF in the world ocean offshore.'
the alliance proposal as mentioned above, Weiguang Chen is not the only one experienced person. The Deputy of Guangdong Provincial Trade Union Kongxiang Hong told the reporter, the headquarters of Nokia Union has made a special trip to us, he hoped that they can reached an association agreement with the Guangdong trade union, the Guangdong trade union can cooperate with Nokia to fight for the rights to 'weaken the exploitation of multinational corporations in global .'
It is worth noting that among the trip of Guangzhou trade unions to US, the important part is in Washington, visiting America's largest unions, 'AFL - CIO' International liaison committee – the principal of International workers solidarity Center Brown . AFL - CIO is the 'Iron fair' of United States Democratic Party, it has 11.5 million members, when the mid-term congressional elections approach in November, the organization put pressure to the U.S. President Barack Obama, they demanded an investigation of unfair competition in China, and found out if there has the relationship with the lower payment to workers or not.
Weiguang Chen said he was responsible for the reasonable interpretation to Brown. According to Brown, the pressure of AFL - CIO is not a zero-sum game to China; on the contrary, there is a more common interest. Chen also claimed, they are willing to 'put aside concerns and make a deeper reorganization.'
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