Strengthen SOE employees' unions

Employees' representative unions in State-owned enterprises (SOE) must be strengthened to prevent their rights from being violated, says an article in Guangzhou Daily. Excerpt:

All China Federation of Trade Unions recently issued a directive, stressing the importance of protecting employees' rights to know, participate, supervise and make decisions.

SOEs have to be reformed. But the problem is the reform of SOEs is different from that of private enterprises. Two questions are important in SOEs' reform: Who should have the right to dispose of the assets that, by law, belong to all the people, and how to deal with the existing workforce.