I think this ties in kinad with the article you posted Learning, but i wasn't sure, so i posted it here.

CHICAGO (AFP) - A global union coalition plans to begin organizing South Korean workers at US retail giant Wal-Mart as part of a drive to improve conditions at the world's biggest private employer, organizers said.

The Union Network International, a group that includes 900 unions in some 140 countries, said in a statement at its congress in Chicago that it would be launching "new organizing initiatives in countries like (South) Korea where Wal-Mart operates."

The statement said the coalition also has plans for "helping unions in Russia and India prepare for the company's arrival and lobbying the regulators to break up Wal-Mart because of its over-dominant pressure on competitors and suppliers."

The union network has been fighting Wal-Mart for years in order to secure better wages, working conditions and collective bargaining rights for its 1.6 million employees.

UNI said the move was part of a global drive to help improve conditions and labor freedom in major corporations.

"There are responsible companies -- we have agreements with some of them," said UNI general secretary Philip Jennings.

"They recognize the right of their workers to join a union, to bargain and to be free from discrimination. They accept the ILO (International Labor Organization) concept of decent work. We are not asking Wal-Mart to do anything different from what expect other companies to do."

UNI president Joe Hansen, who also heads the US-based United Food and Commercial Workers -- which has been battling Wal-Mart for years -- said the effort expands the US union efforts on the retailer.

"Unions must -- and are -- challenging the Wal-Mart model on a global scale," Hansen said. "We intend to leave Chicago not only with a plan but with the intention to put the plan into action."

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