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Article

21 Aug 2008

Author:
Peter Rasmussen, in 3F, United Federation of Danish Workers

Danish factory accused of union busting in China

Trade unionists sacked. No employment contracts. No respect for the courts. These are some of the accusations levelled by a local union at Ole Wolff Electronics, a Danish-owned electronics factory in the city of Yantai...[in] China. Ole Wolff Electronics refuses to recognise a workplace union formed by the employees as a result of their dissatisfaction with conditions at the plant. Instead, the factory management decided to dismis six of the union activists, according to labour researcher Au Loong-Yu of the Hong-Kong-based NGO Globalization Monitor...courts...have since ordered Ole Wolff...to reinstate the six sacked workers, but the factory continues to deny them access...'Not my responsibility,' says...[t]he company's owner and CEO in Denmark...'I don't know the whole truth about what's going on over there, so I can't say so much about the matter...'...