Anna Burger, president of Change to Win (CTW), and Wang Zhaoguo, president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), shake hands after signing a memorandum to facilitate exchanges and cooperation beween the two federations.
This type of agreement could be useful. The protocol reportedly includes a clause encouraging cooperation within the framework of common transnational employers sought by the Teamsters. However its positive potential can only be realized by it being followed up by concrete and practical exchanges at sectoral and local levels closer to the more than 100 million Chinese workers that ACFTU claims to represent and the six million members of unions currently affiliated to the CTW.
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Filed under: Global organizing, Labor History, Politics, Solidarity Tagged: | ACFTU, All-China Federation of Trade Unions, Anna Burger, Change to Win Federation, China, CTW, Society and Culture, Teamsters, United States, Wang Zhaoguo
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