Strikers fed up with delays
Striking workers planned to set tyres aflame today outside a garment factory that supplies JC Penney in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district, union officials said yesterday on the sixth day of the strike at Hong Kong-owned Win Shing-tex Cambodia Co Ltd. Ath Thorn, head of the Cambodian Labour Confederation, said unionists had been trying to negotiate a collective agreement with the company for almost a year, but management had sent only low-level administrative officials to the talks. … Va Yuvavathana, director of the labour dispute resolution office at the Labour Ministry, said it had sent the dispute to the Arbitration Council on March 17. “The ministry does not work on this case any more because it is at the Arbitration Council,” he said. …
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