Julius Roe
President, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
"The TNCs are the ones using China to drive a race to the bottom. The IMF must hold them accountable and use IFAs, networks involving local delegates, increasing contact with workers and unions in China, and mobilisation of members in the plants outside of China to develop pressure on the TNCs to improve labour standards in China."

Valter Sanches
Organising Secretary, Confederação Nacional dos Metalúrgicos (CNM/CUT)
"As China is quickly being incorporated in to the globalised 'Corporate World', the Chinese workers will certainly fight for their share in the economic growth improving their wages, working conditions and quality of life, and the IMF can help them counting with decades of experience of successful struggles of its affiliates worldwide".

Jürgen Peters
President, International Metalworkers’ Federation
President, Industriegewerkschaft Metall (IG Metall)
"I think the IMF affiliates can play a major role in cooperating with the All China Federation of Trade Unions. As I have learned, the ACFTU is willing to use the possibilities of the new Trade Union Law in China to represent the interests of the workers in a new and more efficient way. If the Chinese colleagues ask us to learn from our experiences they are most welcome."

Hisashige Danno
General Secretary, Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Union (IMF-JC)
"China is changing rapidly, and it is very important to start an exchange. Solidarity with all workers is a fundamental role of the IMF. There is no development of the IMF without China, and there is no improvement without communication with Chinese workers. I am expecting the IMF to take the initiative on this front."

Mikhail Tarassenko
President, Miners’ & Metallurgical Workers’ Union of Russia (MMWU)
"I believe the position elaborated at the latest IMF Executive Committee meeting last November despite tough discussions brought us to the right decision. In Russia we say: ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained,’ therefore we have to use every possibility to start positive changes for workers’ rights in China, all free trade unions are interested in this."

Cyrille Tan
General Secretary, International Metalworkers' Federation Singapore Council (IMF-SC)
Secretary, United Workers of the Electronics and Electrical Industries (UWEEI)
"The aim of the IMF is to improve the working conditions and life of metalworkers around the world. There are millions of metalworkers in China whose working conditions and lives need to be improved. Therefore it is inevitable that the IMF as a ‘champion of metalworkers' rights and interests’ should continuously engage China through the metalworker and labour movement, including the ACFTU, to bring about better working conditions and a better standard of living."

Mats Svensson
Head of the International Department, Industrifacket Metall (IF Metall) (IMF-SC)
"We are convinced that the IMF can actively contribute towards a positive development in China when it comes to trade union and human rights. This would be possible through an active dialogue with ACFTU, with representatives from the Government and the authorities, and not least through dialogues with voluntary organisations. By working actively with the multinational companies, which have been established in China, the IMF and their affiliates can in a tangible way contribute to guarantee reasonable working and employment conditions for the employees. As a consequence, this will increase the employees’ influence over their working situation. "