On the evening of May 26, Professor Chang Kai held court in his small hotel room in central China, advising a group of labour activists on how they could defeat Walmart in an arbitration hearing the next morning.
The stakes were high. Had the activists won, Walmart could conceivably have been forced to increase compensation for thousands of Chinese workers affected by about 20 planned store closures.
But last week Mr Chang, an expert in Chinese labour law, and his fellow activists lost decisively. The arbitration panel in the small city of Changde ruled in favour of Walmart, dismissing demands by 69 workers for greater compensation.
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