labor - OECD meeting on workers' rights in Beijing cancelled

Visas of visitors planning to attend an high-level OECD meeting in Beijing were suddenly cancelled on Monday, western media report. The meetings was supposed to start a dialogue between China and the international trade unions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was a convenient umbrella to facilitate discussion that were impossible because of the ongoing boycot of China by the international trade unions. The meeting was supposed to be on guidelines for foreign investment, but workers' rights were also high on the agenda.
The OECD is organizing the thirty richest developed countries.
The cancellation of the meeting, for unclear reasons, comes at an awkward moment as Madame Wu Yi has invited personally the president of the American AFL-CIO to come to China. Also the government-run Chinese trade union ACFTU tried for the first time in ages to look like a real trade union by forcing anti-union US giant Wall-Mart to accept trade union branches in their stores.
While a civil society is developing fast in China, labor activity is lagging, compared to for example the fast growth of organizations that represent employers and industries.