In Comes A Third Party...

Let's put the previous topic on roll. Not from WalMart's perspective but from China & WalMart's influence over the area! A related news article reads,

"A few days ago 11,000 factory workers employed by a Metron toy manufacturing plant in Dongguan, Guangdong, with sales to US companies like Disney, McDonald’s, Mattel and Hasbro, went on strike. Many of them threw stones and clashed with police—riot vehicles were sent in to control the situation and dozens of workers were arrested."
-- AsiaNews

The reason behind being, exploiting laborers with low pay and inhuman working conditions! And WalMart have always been on the similar kind of talk for long time - Why just in Asian countries, but in Americas too where the regular complaints are that the employees work without proper lunch timings and with improper health insurance benefits.

What has changed now is, a section of WalMart's employees in China are part of a Union! All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), a government backed trade union has come into terms with the retailer to make their employees part of their union! Is it good for WalMart or for any foreign-funded company? If things work productive enough, this is sure good in terms of humanitarian basis.

At the same time, is WalMart hinting employees in Americas & Canada to get into Union too? BTW, what happened to the labor charges of the China's iPod factory?