labor - Discussion on labor law in the US

On December 10 a decision, maybe a decision to postpone the decision will me made about the draft labor law that caused already much discussion. The public discussion is now also taking off in the US, like here in de magazine Public Affairs and a piece by Earl V. Brown, a lawyer closely connected to the trade unions in the US, in Japan Focus here.
Not that much news for who has already followed the discussion but Earl V. Brown comes with a few details I did not know:

As noted, some US employers in the American Chamber of Commerce in China have responded to these simple proposals with extreme rhetoric. A group claiming to represent the American Chamber of Commerce—now disavowed by AmCham--burst into a scholarly meeting of labor law reformers held in Shanghai this April 2006 threatening to withdraw from China if the bill passed. "It is like going 20 years backward, instead of moving forward," they complained.