Posted on 12/17/2006 7:20:38 PM PST by HAL9000
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BEIJING, Dec 18, 2006 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX News Network) --Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set up a Communist Party at the headquarters of its China operations, news reports said Monday.
The move follows the success of China's government-sanctioned union body in organizing unions at Wal-Mart's 68 outlets in China.
The party branch was set up Saturday at Wal-Mart's China headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen, the party newspaper People's Daily and the local newspaper Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said.
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A discount Communist Party? Those Commies better keep their costs low and deliver on time or there will be trouble.
Coming soon to a Supercenter near you...but at least the prices are low!
Contrary to U.S. unions, Chinese unions do not declare war on low price seeking consumers.
JET and Tiger you won't believe this ROFL
...all the Walmarts I've ever been in (4 local ones) are messy, sloppy and sell mostly Chi-com made crap that falls apart in 15 minutes. This is just another good reason for me not to shop there.
Commie Wally ping :)
The Commies cannot keep thier fingers out of anything -- kinda like our liberals, hmmmm, interesting comparison, ain't it ??
What would a store (Wal-Marts) have to do with having a Communist headquarters?
I better read the whole story.
Yeah, but their members make $2 a day.
Not that I'm a fan of unions, but how is this different from slavery?
Don't see why they didn't have Wal-marts already. Everything there is already made in China. I can see it now: Support China, shop at Wal-Mart and buy Chinese!
That's been my experience, too. I went to a Grand Opening and the cashier couldn't make change or scan a gift card. Guess they didn't cover that in the training.
" sell mostly Chi-com made crap that falls apart in 15 minutes."
Every wal mart thread you guys start with that line.
I see the same products at Walmart as I see at the other stores.
Why do you guys keep trying to give the impression that Walmart doesn't sell the same old brand name goods as Target and everyone else?
Well, this should put an end to all the hassle they get from the American left. How much more of a good neighbor could they be when they invite the commies into their parlor. Paul Harvey is probably too senile to notice this caper, though.
They should give out a little red book of Mao. It seems that Wal-Mart is thoroughly had by Chicom.
ROFL that so true I should talk I am like any other American I shop at Wal mart that only place in my area has my Dove beauty products LOL!
My Wal Mart has the Olay and Dove beauty products that I used LOL!
UPDATED: 08:12, December 18, 2006
Wal-Mart China sets up Chinese Communist Party branch in Shenzhen
Wal-Mart, one of the world's largest retailers, has set up Chinese Communist Party (CPC) branch in its Chinese headquarter in South China.
Wal-Mart China's headquarter in the southern city of Shenzhen, set up its CPC branch on Nov. 15, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
The establishment of the CPC branch in Wal-Mart China marks the success in promoting CPC organization work in foreign companies and will surely boost more CPC organizations in foreign-financed companies, Wang Suiming, head of the CPC Shenzhen City Committee's organization department.
This is another breakthrough made by the Fortune 500 company after it set up a trade union in its headquarter last month, Wang said.
In August, Wal-Mart set up its first party branch in the northeast city Shenyang.
According to the Constitution of CPC, every Party member must be organized into a branch, cell or other specific unit of the CPC to participate in the regular activities of the Party, and primary Party organizations are formed with at least three full CPC members.
Wal-Mart founded its first trade union in Jinjiang in July and since then at least 60 more Wal-Mart outlets in China have set up trade unions with more than 6,000 members, according to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU).
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. entered the Chinese market in 1996, and it now has 67 stores in 34 Chinese cities, with more than 30,000 employees.
The headline is misleading. It is doubtful that Walmart itself set up the Party cell, but the Party itself started the cell among the Walmart workers -- about par for the course in China where the Party has a constitutional monopoly on political power.
The "constitution" you speak of was imposed by a terrorist murderer who went by the name of Mao Tse-Dong.
Interesting thread. Interesting how many "conservatives" here are indifferent to the brutal antithesis of American Conservatism: Communism.
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