Monday, April 28, 2014

20,000 Cambodian garment workers strike over bonus

Cambodian garment workers protest
Around 20,000 Cambodian garment workers have allied a strike to demand a $50 choice for shunning walkouts beyond the last three months, a be crazy just very approximately credited said going on for Monday, in the latest labour disagreement to rattle the kingdoms lucrative but disconcerted garment sector. 

Workers at in the region of 30 factories in two special economic zones stuffy the Vietnamese be neighboring to throbbing the unconventional after a contract said that two factories had rewarded employees for not participating in the strikes, which routinely cripple the industry. 

Most of the factories have denied the request, Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, told AFP. 

Keo Kong, police chief of eastern Bavet city, where the factories are based, stated the workers were approaching strike, auxiliary: No membership going on has been reached. 

About 650,000 workers manage to pay for the backbone of Cambodias multi-billion dollar garment industry  a key source of foreign pension for the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.  

The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) denied factories had promised to pay workers for not striking and warned their warfare-combat could snowball.

In a confirmation regarding its website the GMAC called upon authorities to prevent illegal activities that could gain to foul language, accusing some of the striking workers of hurling stones at factories. 

Garment workers have been at the forefront of labour protests for in front-thinking wages and have faced several crackdowns by Cambodian authorities.

At least four civilians were killed in to the front January in the midst of police opened blaze upon protesting textile factory workers who were calling for a minimum wage of $160 a month to make clothes for brands including Gap, Nike and H&M.

Pav Sina said trade unions and workers would mark international labour hours of day upon Thursday by marching in the capital Phnom Penh to demand combined wages, greater than before active conditions and the referee not guilty of activists and workers arrested in the bloody January protests.

Twenty-three of those arrested during the crackdown went upon measures Friday, despite international appeals for their pardon.

The court adjourned the events to May 6.

Rights groups publicize if convicted the defendants -- most of whom have been detained for months without bail -- could position going on to five years jail.

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