Wal-Mart allows Communist branch at China headquarters

Posted on December 19, 2006 6:50 PM | | Comments (0)

By AFP | Yahoo
19 December 2006

BEIJING (AFP) - Retail giant Wal-Mart, an icon of American capitalism, has said it had authorised the establishment of a Communist Party union branch at its China headquarters.

The branch was set up in the southern city of Shenzhen, where Wal-Mart operates its China business, said a spokeswoman at its headquarters, Huang Yunling.

"We set up the Communist Party (branch) last Friday. It's one of our steps to adapt better to China."

It followed the establishment of similar party organizations in around a third of Wal-Mart's 66 stores in China since August, after two years of intense pressure from the All China Confederation of Trade Unions to allow unions.

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