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Shanghai's Trade Unions Help Laid-off Workers Find Jobs

Hu Zhifeng, a laid-off worker in the east China metropolis Shanghai, always smiles when she talks about her business which has become very successful over the past five years.


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Hu Zhifeng, a laid-off worker in the east China metropolis Shanghai, always smiles when she talks about her business which has become very successful over the past five years.

Laid off from the Shanghai No. 2 Electronic Clock Plant some years ago, Hu has established the Shanghai Emerald Adornment and Glass Co., Ltd. with the help of the Shanghai Trade Union of LightIndustries.

After five years' development, Hu's products are now sold in many of Shanghai's leading department stores and shopping centers and have been exported to many countries including Japan, the United States and Australia.

Hu's company has two subsidiaries and six salesrooms. At present, 70 percent of her employees are laid-off workers.

Hu is only one of the many laid-off workers in Shanghai who arerunning successful businesses with the help of local trade unions. Over the past six years, local trade unions have helped 300,000 laid-off workers find jobs.

Shanghai's trade unions at all levels select groups of competent and hard-working laid-off workers who have courage and determination and train them in management, marketing and practical skills. Many laid-off workers are now running successfulbusinesses involving purified water, real estate intermediate services, household services, car washing and repairs and many other fields. To resolve financial worries for the laid-off workers, Shanghai's trade unions have set up special funds totaling more than 20 million yuan (2.4 million US dollars) to assist laid-off workers to start up their businesses.

The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions has raised more than 10million yuan (1.2 million US dollars) which is used to develop re-employment bases and training for laid-off workers.

Ye Luping, who was laid off from the Yatai Glass Technology Company years ago, opened a rest home for the aged in 1998 to takegood care of sick elderly people and those who have no family members to look after them.

The high standard of care in Ye's rest home attracted an increasing number of elderly people. Ye planned to expand her establishment but could not afford to do so.

The trade union of the glass industry in Shanghai offered 160,000 yuan which enabled Ye to carry out her expansion.

At present, Ye's rest home has more than 80 beds compared with the 14 she began with. Eight laid-off workers work for her.

Thanks to a series of training programs, many laid-off workers have been employed by and become backbone workers in private enterprises.


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