Garment workers continue protest after factory owner flees

30 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Garments and textiles / Industries / Labor / Manufacturing
Adidas / Canadia Industrial Park / Gap / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Hongkong Yufeng factory / Sieng Sambath / Workers Friendship Union Federation

About 400 garment workers who lost their jobs when their factory abruptly closed earlier this month blocked access to Canadia Industrial Park on Saturday to demand full severance pay. Workers from the Hongkong Yufeng factory, which unexpectedly closed on June 9, are demanding that management of the Canadia Park take responsibility for money they are owed because the owner of the factory has disappeared. … After blocking access to the industrial park for about two hours on Saturday morning, causing havoc for transport trucks, the workers won a meeting with representatives of the park, but no resolution was reached. Dok Sam Ath, a representative of the workers, said Canadia is claiming it does not have enough money to pay out severance packages. …

 Ben Sokhean
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