by Girish Anand | Mar 23, 2009 | Random Musings
I’ve written previously about the card-check union organizing provision in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) now before Congress. It turns out that this is the same method, gathering signatures, that Chinese workers used to set up unions in every Wal-Mart...
by Girish Anand | Jan 26, 2009 | Random Musings
China ushered in the Year of the Ox yesterday (today in the U.S.) amid deepening economic and social woes. It’s hard to get the truth out of the People’s Republic, which is anything but a republic, but the year just closed saw some 18,000 businesses close,...
by Girish Anand | Dec 30, 2008 | Random Musings
With tens of thousands of us Americans losing our jobs every week, I found it interesting to discover that China just in the past year implemented what’s called the Labor Contract Law, which basically gives every employee a nearly unbreakable contract with their...
by Girish Anand | Dec 11, 2008 | Random Musings
You might think it was the early phase of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain if you visited South China these days. Guangdong Province is the manufacturing heartland of China, and its factories supply a lot of what we Americans find at Wal-Mart and many other...