Senior CPC Official Urges Increased Efforts to Form Trade UnionsFurther efforts should be made to speed up the forming of trade unions in enterprises to fully utilize the role of the working class in materializing China's Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005), a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said."A breakthrough must be realized in the founding of new trade unions in enterprises," said Wei Jianxing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, at a national work conference on founding new trade unions, held November 11-12 in Ningbo, a port city of Zhejiang Province. Wei, also chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, urged officials at all levels to place importance on the founding of trade unions, saying that it is important for harmonizing relations between the Party and the workers, safeguarding the unity of the working class and maintaining the country's long-term stability. He called for concrete efforts to be made to protect workers from infringements on their basic rights and interests in accordance with the Law of Labor and to solve the problems that most concern workers. |
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