A Brief Introduction of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)

founded on May 1, 1925 local unions ： 31 provincial level unions industrial unions ： 10 national level Basic Information :

union membership ： 209million  Migrant workers’ union member 66million  full-time cadres ： 543,000  part-time cadres ： million

1. Protecting Workers’ Rights at Source ▼ formulation of laws and policies concerning workers' rights and interests both at the national and local levels ▼ promote the tripartite consultation mechanism at various levels ▼ establish a joint meeting system with governments at the corresponding levels activities

2. Coordinating Labor Relations  establish the equal consultation and collective contract system  build the workers' congress system to exercise their right to democratic management. Its main functions include examining important production plans, deciding on major issues relating to welfare of workers, and appraising and supervising the leadership of an enterprise  build a sound mediation and arbitration system at all levels and participate in handling labor disputes -Chair Person : Mayor -Members:-Rep. of CCI -Rep. of TLO (CBOs Association) -PPP Expert -M. Secretary:Focal Person

3. Promoting Employment ▼ open employment agencies at county level and above ▼ set up job training centers ▼ hand out small loans to laid-off workers

4. Caring for the Well-Being and Health of Workers ▼ carry out in depth the Warmth Project and do whatever it takes to lift poverty-stricken workers out of their difficulties ▼ develop welfare services for workers, such as consumer cooperatives, housing cooperatives and workers’ mutual insurance programs ▼ establish labor protection bodies and a labor protection inspection system at all levels

5. Building Trade Unionism 6. Enhancing the Quality of Workers 7. Protecting Migrant Workers 8. International Exchanges and Cooperation

Information technology 1.ACFTU Set up English homepage in 2000 ， Chinese homepage in 2002, Part of local union and union’ training institution 、 newspaper set up their own homepage linked to the internet 2. Set up information exchange platform homepage linked to local union as well as system for union’ staff

3. Information technology training course for ACFTU’ and local union 4. Set up information technology managing department response for ACFTU and local union’ homepage \information platform management

Challenges  Information technology is not fully used in the research and office management  Leadership’s awareness about IT and information is not enough  Union officals at local and enterprise level both good at IT skills and trade union research not enough

Sun Jianfu ACFTU