Henk van der Kolk, chairman of the federation of Dutch unions (FNV), the main confederation of trade unions in the Netherlands, announced, on March 5, that direct contacts were taken with the ACFTU (All China Federation of Trade Union,) the only legal union in China. He wants to launch a debate within the International Trade Union Confederation – ITUC – on the necessity of a "jump forward" at the social level in China. (Ref. 070214)
In Scandinavia and Germany, direct contacts were already taken with the ACFTU, a union the ITUC takes a dim view of, because it is controlled by the Beijing government.
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