Wal-Mart to allow workers to join unions in China
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Retailing giant Wal-Mart will let  officials from China's state-run trade union to form and join  unions, a company spokesman said on Friday as the two sides  continued talks on the controversy.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's   biggest retailer, is ready for some football.
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Wal-Mart Stores , the world's  largest retailer, said on Monday it acquired a 35 percent stake  in China's Bounteous Company, expanding its presence in the  world's most populous country.
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Capitalist icon Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, now has its first communist party branch.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the  world's biggest retailer, is ready for some football.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, plans to open as many as 15 new stores in China next year, competing for a foothold with Carrefour SA and Metro Group as the government lifts curbs on foreign retailers.
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SHANGHAI, CHINA - Under pressure from the Chinese labor federation, the world&#39;s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, said Tuesday it would permit branches of the official Communist Party-controlled union in its Chinese stores if employees requested it.
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US retail giant Wal-Mart could soon face its first nationwide strike at its Asda supermarket subsidiary in Britain after workers voted in favor of industrial action in a row over pay.
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BEIJING -- China enacted a law yesterday meant to improve workers' rights after the communist government took the unprecedented step of seeking input from foreign companies and the Chinese public.
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Wal-Mart plans to open 18 new stores in China by the end of next year, as new rules permit foreign retailers to expand into smaller inland cities.
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Embroiled in a dispute over its labor policies, a Chinese supplier of Apple Computer's iPod has been told to let its more than 200,000 workers set up a trade union, reports said Friday.
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Wal-Mart Stores is expanding the definition of "immediate family" in its employee-ethics policy to account for laws in states that recognize domestic partnerships and civil unions.
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A federal judge gave undocumented Wal-Mart Stores contract workers the right to seek out colleagues and form a group to collectively sue the company for unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations.
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Wal-Mart is buying a 35 percent stake in a company that operates Trust-Mart, a major Chinese discount chain, as international competitors jostle for position in China's rapidly growing retail market.
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A U.S. watchdog group has called on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to put a stop to what it says is worker abuse at a factory in the Philippines that makes apparel for the retailer.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world&#39;s largest retailer, said it plans to open as many as 15 new stores in China next year, expanding in the world&#39;s fastest-growing economy as the government lifts curbs on foreign store operators.
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Wal-Mart, the nationâs largest private employer, said more than half of its U.S. workers had enrolled in the companyâs health insurance plan.