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4. "The workers are protected now," says an Australian
researcher, Anita Unger, author of a new book, "China's
Workers Under Assault."
5. According to the government, at least 24 million workers
have been fired from their jobs in state-owned enterprises,
which are quickly being transformed into private enterprises
as the state sells off its shares.
6. The situation may only get worse, some workers say, if
President Jiang Zemin has his way at the 16th Communist
Party's Congress in November.
7. Labor lawyers do not want to see better laws so these poor
workers and their families can be compensated.
8. Then, long overtime was mostly a feature of export
sweatshops rather than state-owned enterprises.
9. Independent unions are legal in China.
10. For 23 days, Wang says, the police kept him in jail and beat
him, trying to extract a confession until the official
"Worker's Daily" ran a story on his plight.

7. Choose the correct Ukrainian translation.
1. But as state-owned enterprises become private, poor
working conditions and sudden layoffs are increasingly
common, analysts say.
a) Але оскільки підприємства з державною формою
правління стали приватними, все більш звичними
явищами були погані умови праці та несподіване
скорочення виробництва, говорять аналітики.
b) Але оскільки колгоспи з державною формою
правління ставатимуть приватними, все більш
звичними явищами будуть погані умови праці та
несподіване скорочення виробництва, вважають
аналітики.

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