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Worker unionization has dramatically increased in China since the beginning of 2007. Chinese domestic companies and foreign-invested companies operating in China are both feeling the effects, but in different ways.

Some Chinese firms turn to union mediators to help deal with a growing number of worker strikes, while many foreign-invested companies are being pressed by the Chinese government to open their doors to government unions.

Throughout 2008, as Chinese firms and union officials have begun to take innovative approaches to handle worker unrest, foreign companies now wonder if they will have to follow in lockstep.

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