WORKERS IN CHINA MOVE TO FORM FREE TRADE
UNION; WILL HUMAN RIGHTS FOLLOW GLOBAL RUNAWAY COMPANIES?
WORKERS STRIKE
HONDA PLANTS, DEMAND DOUBLING OF POVERTY WAGES
According
to New York Times reporter Keith Bradsher, "striking workers at a Honda auto
parts plant in Zhongshen, China, are demanding the right to form their own
labor union, something officially forbidden in China...A near doubling of
wages is the primary goal. Meanwhile, other scattered strikes have
begun to ripple into [other] Chinese provinces."
photos by Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times
From our perspective as U.S.
workers, if wages rise in
China, U.S. (and Japanese) labor will be more competitive, and we
could see some manufacturing return to this country.
No less important -- if labor rights spread to the rest of the world --
where will global companies addicted to virtually free (in cost) labor go to
earn their obscene profits? Just as "an injury to one is an
injury to all," so A VICTORY FOR WORKERS IN ONE COUNTRY IS A VICTORY
FOR ALL.
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