{"id":12145,"date":"2007-04-09T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/09\/mcdonalds-outlets-in-china-unionizing-david-barboza\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:36:59","slug":"mcdonalds-outlets-in-china-unionizing-david-barboza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/mcdonalds-outlets-in-china-unionizing-david-barboza\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s outlets in China unionizing &#8211; David Barboza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_image_0,,451369_4,00.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/_image_0,,451369_4,00.jpg','popup','width=330,height=244,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_image_0,,451369_4,00-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"135\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Image 0,,451369 4,00\" \/><\/a> From The International Herald Tribune:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA year after Wal-Mart unionized all its stores in China under pressure from the government, McDonald&#8217;s is cooperating with China&#8217;s large state-controlled union to allow the formation of more union locals in its 670 outlets here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA McDonald&#8217;s spokesman said Monday that the company is now working with union officials to help establish a union at its stores in the southern province of Guangdong, one of the country&#8217;s wealthiest regions.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came nearly two weeks after a state-controlled newspaper in Guangdong reported that some McDonald&#8217;s, KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in Guangdong were violating the law by paying employees less than minimum wage and denying some workers full-time benefits. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/04\/09\/news\/union.php\">[Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The International Herald Tribune: A year after Wal-Mart unionized all its stores in China under pressure from the government, McDonald&#8217;s is cooperating with China&#8217;s large state-controlled union to allow the formation of more union locals in its 670 outlets here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6506,1534],"class_list":["post-12145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-labor-unions","tag-mcdonald","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.7 (Yoast SEO v23.7) - 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