沃尔玛关闭中国门店引发抗议_BEC初级作文

沃尔玛关闭中国门店引发抗议

The protests highlight Chinese workers’ growing willingness to demand higher compensation during corporate acquisitions and restructurings, in addition to agitating for higher pay adjustments every year. A historic demographic shift in 2017, when China’s working-age population declined for the first time, has given workers greater bargaining power.

这些抗议活动突显中国工人除了每年要求得到更大幅度的加薪外，还越来越倾向于在企业并购和重组时要求得到更高补偿。中国在2017年发生历史性的人口结构变化，劳动适龄人口首次减少，这给了工人们更大的议价能力。

China has proved to be a difficult market for Walmart. It opened its first stores in the country in 1996 and now has about 400, but it has struggled to get a satisfactory return on investment and in the past two years has admitted to making mistakes in its haste to expand.

对沃尔玛来说，中国已被证明是一个困难的市场。沃尔玛1996年在中国开设首批门店，目前拥有大约400家门店，但该公司一直难以取得令人满意的投资回报，在过去两年里承认在匆忙扩张的过程中出现失误。

While China’s ACFTU was instrumental in establishing branches at Walmart’s Chinese stores in 2006 and 2007, many labour activists say that it is more interested in collecting lucrative payroll fees than fighting for workers’ rights. ACFTU officials played no part in a recent strike that affected an IBM factory in southern China and have also been silent on two other labour protests in which workers were charged with disrupting public order.