Our story goes back to late April 2006, just before May Day.In Beijing, a local newspaper reported that at a construction site,migrant workers trom poor rural villages across China were often given leftovers to eat as their employer tried by every possible means to reduce the cost.The news report instantly aroused public indignation, and Cui Ruilan, a local union leader, felt uneasy about what had happened to those migrant workers she was supposed to protect.She lost no time to intervene in her capacity as vicechairperson of the Construction Industry Work Committee of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions.She went down to the construction site, found the contractor and talked with him.In just a few days migrant workersthere were able to find that their food and accommodation had improved a great deal.