Trade Unions, Enterprises Agree On Protecting Women Workers' Rights

 March 3, 2015

Trades unions across China have inked 1.2 million agreements to protect female workers' rights and interests with over 3 million enterprises as of September 2014, said a senior official of China's national trade union organization.

The agreements have covered about 93 million female workers, said Fan Jiying, vice president of the Beijing-based All-China Federation of Trade Unions (AFTU), the largest of its type in the world, set-up by Chinese working class volunteers in 1925.

Over the past year, the AFTU can count many achievements and has developed in new ways, said Fan in her work report in Beijing dated March 2, 2015.

The year 2014 saw the implementation of the union's latest project to improve women's skills in achieving set goals. Across the 27 provinces, regions and municipalities in China, the trade unions last year provided training to about 8 million female workers.

In early 2011, the AFTU began urging trade unions to sign agreements with enterprises as a way to better promote workplace gender equality and protect the rights and interests of female works along with their organizations.

(Source: chinanews.com/Translated and edited by Women of China)

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