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Morning Clicks | FT: Foxconn to hold groundbreaking 'democratic' union vote after Lunar New Year

Preparation for the vote, which aims to bring greater transparency to the company's 18,000 union committees, is being done in co-operation with the US-based Fair Labor Association.

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This would be the first such exercise at a large company in China, where labour unions have traditionally been controlled by management and local government. Foxconn is the country’s largest private sector employer with 1.2m mainland workers.

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