Duty calls: Strikers told they must go back to work
The Arbitration Council yesterday ordered protesting workers in Kampong Cham province to return to their factory today, as a union official reported that their numbers had swelled to nearly 3,000 outside the provincial hall in their third demonstration this week over an ongoing labour dispute. Free Trade Union official Yan Rath Keo Pisey said yesterday worker representatives from the Manhattan Cambodia garment factory, provincial labour officials and the deputy provincial governor had entered into discussions over nine remaining demands in the workers’ 12-point list. “The workers will not come back to work,” he said. …
