Factory allegedly hires thugs to hurt strikers

22 May 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
bosses / C.CAWDU / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) / Employees / factory / gang / gangsters / Garment Factory / Haiyun garment factory / injure / lobbied / Meanchey District / Ney Bunthoeun / Protest / thugs / union official / workers

A garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday denied hiring a group of 10 “gangsters” to beat and injure workers as they protested. Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) official Ney Bunthoeun said a gang of thugs hired by Haiyun garment factory bosses injured a union official and a worker as 500 employees lobbied to have six C.CAWDU representatives reinstated. …

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