labor - And what is the ACFTU going to do?

What is the ACFTU, many of you will ask. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is the only officially allowed trade union in China and they catched some headlines after Wal-Mart gave in and said they would no longer stop a trade union in their company, as both Asian Labour News and Danwei report.
Most attention goes to the fact that Wal-Mart has a anti-Union tradition and apart from Quebec it had effectively sabotaged any effort to unionize workers.
The question is of course, what is going to happen in China? The ACFTU has not been in the forefront of trade union actitivities in China - to the relieve of many employers - but have mainly held up their hand for the 3 percent cut of the wages they are allowed to have and to organize annual outings. They have never organized outside the cities and did not engage into collective bargaining.
Now, on the employers' side many lobby-like organizations have emerged over the past few years, while the ACFTU remained dormant, mainly busy in stopping others to set up real trade unions. In the emerging civil society, you would expect also workers to get some kind of representation. The question is whether the ACFTU is going to do an effort to gain some credibility here, or in the end will have to give way to others.