International trade union ready to engage ACFTU

The world's largest association of trade unions, the ITUC, has decided to start talks with China's only trade union the ACFTU, writes IPS. Most of the international trade unions have been boycotting the Chinese union because of its ties with the communist party, but as the importance of China increased that anti-Chinese front has been crumbling.
Late last year the Hong Kong based labor NGO's decided to change their policies towards the ACFTU, and now the ITUC in Brussels, with 167 million members in 153 countries will start to engage China's trade union, despite fierce opposition of some of its members, notably the Dutch and Polish members.
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The majority of ITUC members support the new dialogue, given the process of globalisation and the role that China plays in it. ITUC is not represented in China and thus has no influence in a rapidly growing part of the world economy.
"By starting a dialogue with the Chinese trade union, ITUC wants to have more influence on the ground in China," Ryder said in a statement. "It should enable us also to discuss the role of China in the world."
They argue also that ACFTU does play a positive role in the field. ACFTU has had to adapt to the changing socio-economic environment in China, with private companies increasingly calling the shots, and millions of internal migrants living in precarious conditions.