Japanese auto maker Toyota Motor Corp is currently working on new plans to improve its vehicle quality for China — the world's largest automobile market.

Angered by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions' manipulation of their elections, a team of staff from the Construction Site Workers General Union, an affiliated organization of HKCTU, went to protest at Hong Kong SAR government offices and the HKCTU headquarters, asking that the election result be overturned.

According to Liu Yongyi, the chairperson of the Guangdong Hotel Union, an affiliate of Guangdong Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, she is going to be fired on April 30, 2009 for upsetting her employer.

The All China Federation of Trade Unions says it will coordinate with the relevant government authorities to take effective measures to regularize workers' back pay before the Spring Festival begins at the end of January 2009.

Guo Wencai, director of the Grass Roots Organization Set-up Division of the All China Federation of Trade Unions, said at a press conference that multinational companies would not be allowed to delay or hinder employees in the setting up of trade unions, or have two standards on human rights issues.

After more than four years of arguments with Sanhuan Xiangmo New Technology Co., Ltd, a Sino-Japanese joint venture where he used to be employed, Tang Xiaodong has failed in his lawsuit and was ordered to terminate his labor relations with SXNTC.

All the 108 retail outlets of Wal-Mart in China have now signed collective contracts with their labor unions.