Multinational Lauffs Complains about China

From the New York Times

Chinese Legislate Labor Law Reform: No Worker Left Behind!


"Passage of the measure came shortly after officials and the state news media unearthed the widespread use of slave labor in as many as 8,000 brick kilns and small coal mines in Shanxi and Henan Provinces. It was one of the most glaring labor scandals since China began adopting market-style economic policies a quarter century ago.
The police have freed nearly 600 workers, many of them teenagers, held against their will in factories owned or operated by well-connected businesspeople and local officials.

"Abuses of migrant laborers have been endemic in China, where millions of temporary workers have faced unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions and collusion between factory owners and local officials.

"“It will be more difficult to run a company here,” said Andreas W. Lauffs, head of Baker & McKenzie’s employment law group, which represents many of America’s biggest corporations in China."

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., immigrant workers continue to be abused, the Senate can't figure out a reform that would satisfy both corporations and nativists, and the right to choose a union continues to be honored in the breach. Now that's post-modernism!