labor - Permission employers not needed for trade union

Workers do not need the approval of their employer for setting up a trade union, said a top-official of China's ACFTU, the only allowed federation of trade unions, according to this dispatch by the official news agency Xinhua.
In the past trade unions always permission from the company to set up a branch, but last year at Wal-Mart they forced the strongly anti-union retailer to accept trade unions in all its branches and recently it also happened to the Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn. Foxconn produces amongst others iPods for Apple and got last year into heavy water after it was accused of ignoring the labor law.
According to the law companies not only need to have trade unions, but those organizations also have the right to cash in a few percent of the payroll.