| | South China Morning Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) |
 | | Widespread changes in China's economy and its importance as a U.S. trading partner have highlighted the need to resume talks, according to the delegation's organizer, Kent Wong, director of the Centre for Labour Research and Education at the University of California in Los Angeles. |
 | | Wong said: “For many years, the AFL-CIO has had the view that the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) was not a free trade union, that it was not independent and was led by the Communist Party. |
 | | Among those in China are California Labour Federation president Tom Rankin; Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; Paul Booth, assistant to the president of the American Federation of the State, County and Municipal Employees; and the president of the Local 121 California Nurses Union, Louise Blue. |
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