In their latest bid for a $160 minimum monthly wage for the garment industry, independent unions will lead a “stay at home” strike late next week. While the chances of that figure being approved anytime soon seem slight – the government has only just announced a ...

About 170 garment workers fainted at a factory in Kampong Speu yesterday, the first day Anful Garments manufacturing reopened after being hit by a mass fainting incident on monday, workers and government officials said yesterday. The second mass fainting at the Hong Kong-owned factory, which supplies ...

Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and ...

Violence erupted yesterday morning during a long-running protest at a Phnom Penh factory that produces clothing for international brands H&m, Gap and Levi Strauss when about 1,000 workers broke the factory’s gate and started hurling rocks to break its windows, protesters and military police officers ...

Because of ongoing strikes and an inability to fill orders, SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) says it is shedding cash flow as buyers shift away from one of Asia’s largest producers, factory management confirmed yesterday. International brands H&m and Gap reduced their orders, while Levi’s ceased buying ...

Union officials fear violence that occurred at two separate rallies in front of the SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd factory last week will continue at one scheduled this morning. About 10 SL strikers were injured during demonstrations on Thursday and Friday, when uniformed and plain-clothes SL ...

Cambodian officials, led by Permanent Deputy Prime minister Keat Chhon, on monday met with a 18-member delegation representing global brands and trade unions to discuss garment worker rights and wages. It was the second round of talks between Cambodian government officials and representatives of major brands ...

A major international union wants Cambodian garment workers and factory managers to return to negotiations, following meetings between international companies and officials. The IndustriALL Global Union said Tuesday that management should seriously consider a minimum wage of $160 per month, after international buyers such as Levis ...

A representative of clothing brand H&m said yesterday that there was no conclusive evidence proving that staff from their supplier factory in Kandal province had committed violence against a union representative on Wednesday. Nhem Samphose, a representative for the Free Trade Union at New Archid Garment ...

About 4,000 garment workers from factories that produce clothing for international brands H&m, Gap and Levi Strauss continued protesting yesterday in Phnom Penh for higher wages, union representatives said. Singaporean-owned SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd. parked three large trucks in front of their meanchey district factories ...

More than 70 workers at a factory in KoMpong Speu province that produces garMents for the Swedish clothing brand H&aMp;M were hospitalized Monday after they fainted at their workplace. Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, said the workers at the Anful garMent factory in ...

To capitalise on a rising demand for pork, a state-owned Chinese company is pouring $200 million into ruling party senator and tycoon mong Reththy’s pig farm in Preah Sihanouk province. ...

ManageMent at one of Asia’s largest garMent producers yesterday fired at least 600 eMployees, days after thousands returned to work following a two-week strike. Most of the workers fired by SL GarMent Processing (CaMbodia) Ltd – which supplies Gap, Levi’s and H&aMp;M – were MeMbers of ...

The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, must force British clothing companies to investigate whether garments sourced from Cambodia are made at factories with fair labour practices, the unions have warned. Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, has written to mr Cable warning that ...

Officials of the Garment manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GmAC) are concerned that recent strikes could delay delivery to customers, and factories are looking for solutions to meet buyers’ demands. About 10,000 workers in seven or eight garment factories have gone on strike recently demanding higher wages ...

Some 200 garment factory workers protested at the ministry of Social Affairs on Friday, a day after they held a demonstration in front of the Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh and urged diplomats to intervene in a labour dispute involving unpaid wages from a factory ...

Major labels that have clothing Manufactured in CaMbodian factories have written an open letter expressing concern for the recent shootings of workers deMonstrating for higher wages. Adidas, Gap, H&aMp;M, Levi’s and PuMa were aMong those that signed the January 7 letter to the PhnoM Penh governMent, ...

Police on Wednesday denied any responsibility for the shooting death of a street food vendor after they fired live rounds during clashes with garment factory workers in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district on Tuesday, with a government spokesman saying the security forces can use “any means” ...

When unions and the Garment manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GmAC) signed a memorandum of understanding in October last year, both sides were confident strikes in the Kingdom’s biggest export sector could be kept to a minimum. Not counting December, GmAC has recorded 131 strikes this ...

Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&m will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. A spokesperson for H&m’s headquarters in ...