On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >On Behalf Of Rakesh Bhandari
> > Are you supporting the this new brave fight by the new
> > internationalist AFL CIO against the PetroChina IPO?
> > Yours, Rakesh
Nathan wrote:>
> Why is there this soft spot for antiunion Chinese corporations that suddenly
> union actions attacking them are illegitimate?
>
Well, no, but one wonders why this is of such great concern and anti-union oil corporations in Indonesia, Mexico,...are of such little concern to the union movement at the moment. Sometimes the choice is strategic, and obviously that is part of the motivation here, the size of the CHinese market, influence on world labor market conditions...but at the same time much of the reasoning used to back up this attack is based more on stereotyped understandings of the Chinese situation instead of concrete clear knowledge about the situation of workers in China. Enough of uncritical support of China as well as uncritical opposition to China....
Steve