Request rejected to have union head step down

19 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Judiciary and courts / Labor / Law and judiciary / Unions
Ath Thorn / CCAWDU / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union / Kim Socheat / Ly Libmeng / Oum Visal / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Roeun Chanthorn

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected a request from two former members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) to have the union’s president be forced to step down as he is investigated for embezzlement. Former CCAWDU officials Oum Visal and Roeun Chanthorn filed a complaint against CCAWDU President Ath Thorn in early April, accusing him and two other union leader of siphoning off more than $92,000 from a settlement for workers involved in a factory dispute. …

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