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Wednesday 15 July 2015

Cambodian Garment Factory Workers Demonstrate for Subsidies

2015-07-14

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Garment factories workers demonstrate outside the Ministry of Labor in Phnom Penh, July 14, 2015.
RFA

At least 500 workers from three garment factories in Cambodia demonstrated on Tuesday outside the Labor Ministry in the capital Phnom Penh, demanding that government officials intervene in their quest for better working conditions and food and transportation subsidies.
The workers from two factories owned by the company Akeentech in Phnom Penh and one owned by Sixplus in southern Cambodia’s Kandal province marched through the streets until they reached the ministry building, where they submitted petitions asking government officials to intervene because their factories refused to meet their demands for subsidies about a week ago.
Both companies meet minimum wage requirements, but they do not give any subsidies that are typically paid to workers in Cambodia.
Sum Rorng, president of the Union Federation for Worker Security, told RFA’s Khmer Service that his union workers from Sixplus started striking on July 1 to demand subsidies for meals, transportation and housing.
“We have asked for money for transportation and five more dollars for rent and another 1,000 riel [U.S. $0.24] for food,” he said.

Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, told RFA that workers at Akeentech had gone on strike in early July, calling on the company to meet nine demands, including increasing food subsidies, providing transportation subsidies and improving work conditions.
A rival union defended the factory during the strike, but there was no violence, he said.
RFA could not reach the factories for comments.
After submitting their petitions to the ministry, the workers marched to the National Assembly [parliament] and prime minister’s office to seek intervention.
They said they would continue their demonstration if their factories continued to refuse to meet their demands.
Reported by Tha Thai for RFA’s Khmer Service. Translated by Samean Yun. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

"1,000 riel [U.S. $0.24] for food..."

So, why does the garment worker only have 24 US cents for food why you folks were raising 2 dollars for each lunch box for the monks? Do those lunch box contain a lot of meat for the Khmer monks?

Look, Khmer monks are fat and well fed. The garment workers are poor and fainting in the thousands. What's wrong here?

Stupid Khmer, you have a bunch of fake monks who are actually the trouble makers. They are paid monks to do protest. When they have nothing to do, they rape women or do drugs.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

Go and eat some dog shits already, fool. Maybe then, you stupid youn will make some sense in trying to express yourself.


Sincerely,
STUPID youn

Anonymous said...

Dear Khmer and foreign readers:

Drgunzet is a Vietnamese/Yuon spammer or troller based in Boise, Idaho.

This Yuon/Vietnamese troublemaker have created messes and messed up with everyone on the internet forum.

This Vietnamese poster has tried too hard to protect his Vietnamese/Yuon from having bad reputation, being embarrassed, being called nation of thieves (who took land from China "North Vietnam", Champa "Central Vietnam" and Cambodia/Khmer Kampuchea Krom "Southern Vietnam"), and being called a manipulators (lobbyists) at the UN to make a fool and confusion, and beyond until today.

Khmer Yeourng