Excerpted from an AFT press release:

Reflecting its longtime commitment to international human rights and democracy, the delegates at the AFT convention this week heard an inspirational message from one of the Chinese labor leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and today passed a resolution urging union members around the world to support Chinese workers who are struggling every day to increase human and workers' rights in their country....

Speaking passionately in English, Han told more than 3,000 AFT delegates that “the independent trade union movement offers hope to workers in China.  Right now, because of the Chinese government's violations of workers' rights and trade, our unions are in darkness.  But there is light at the end of the tunnel. It is a tough fight, but not an impossible one. This is our work. This is our mission.”
 
In response to Han's moving speech, AFT delegates passed a resolution calling the AFT, in cooperation with the AFL-CIO, to pressure the Chinese government to free imprisoned labor and human rights activists and extend basic human rights to all Chinese citizens.  The AFT reiterated its policy of non-contact and non-cooperation with the government-controlled All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU).