Passports in hand, strikers eye return
More than half of the 800 Cambodian workers who accused police of threatening them with guns and firing into the air during a protest at Phatthana Seafood Co in Thailand on Monday were preparing to return home yesterday, a strike representative said. Sok Sorng said employees were told factory management would return their passports and release them from their contracts if they wanted to leave, following negotiations with CDM Trading Manpower, the Cambodian company who sent the workers to the factory. About 500 have taken them up on their offer, he said. …
