Unions in China in a period of marketisation

The widely televised and subsequently reponed upon 'Battle of Seanle', a large scale conflagration at the scene of the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999, has become known for the 'unity of the Teamsters and the turtles' in opposing nco-liberalism. This epithet signified the hitherto unknown alliance of organised labour - labour unions 1 - with lhe environmental protection movement. To the wider public throughout lhe world, this must have seemed like the first major, visible act by organised labour against not just the effects (or symptoms) of nco-liberalism but also in a sense their cause too (in terms of the global institutions associated with nco-liberalism).