Six million migrant workers expected to join labor union this year

Labor unions at all levels will try to recruit six million members from migrant workers in 2006, according to an official with All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

China now has more than 150 million labor union members. All-China Federation of Trade Unions plans to expand its membership by over 10 million this year, a great number of whom will be coming from workers in non-public-owned enterprises and migrant workers.

Six million migrant workers are expected to join in the union.

According to statistics published by All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the number of migrant workers in China has exceeded 120 million, mostly in non-public-owned enterprises. Migrant workers represent 71 percent of all the workers in the construction industry but only 13.8 percent of them have joined the labor union.

By People's Daily Online