Labor unrest in China?

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As the story about the Foxconn Riot makes the round, the cause is assigned to labor unrest. "Day by day, Chinese workers expect better conditions and greater guarantees that when companies go bust, the employees will not. And, yet, China permits no independent trade unions or free collective bargaining."

In the US it is the independent unions and collective bargaining that has kept labor unrest virtually at bay. Yet  the Republican Party sees unions and collective bargaining as a cancer that stunts the growth of the economy. A worker may not be unionized, but he or she is protected from the employer by the existence of the unions.

Republicans and anti-unionists - be careful what you wish for.