Thousands protest outside Gladpeer Garment Factory
More than 2,000 workers deMonstrated in front of PhnoM Penh’s Gladpeer GarMent Factory yesterday, deManding a higher MiniMuM wage and several other concessions. The workers decided to strike after the Por Sen Chey district factory did not respond to repeated requests to raise their Monthly MiniMuM ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011560786/National/thousands-turn-out-for-strike.html
Phnom Penh Garment Factory Protest Resolved
More than 4,000 workers froM two PhnoM Penh garMent factories belonging to a coMpany that supplies international brands Gap, H&aMp;M and Levi Strauss returned to work yesterday after reaching an agreeMent with owners, union and factory representatives said yesterday. Eah Chip Eang, personnel Manager for SL ...
Shuttered schools, factories
With only about 10 per cent of its 1,000-person workforce at their stations by 8am yesterday, management at Hoyear (Cambodia) Garment Ltd cut its losses and announced that the factory would close for the next two days. Thousands across the capital opted out of work ...
Sean Teehan, Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shuttered-schools-factories
Factory rejects order to rehire 19 workers
Flouting a government order, representatives of SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd yesterday refused to rehire 19 union representatives and activists during a meeting with the ministry of Labour. Rehiring the 19 has been the key sticking point in ending the three-month-old strike, which erupted into violence ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-rejects-order-rehire-19-workers
(English) Cambodia garment sector small fry for suppliers
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Holly Robertson and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-garment-sector-small-fry-for-suppliers-66677/
(English) US retailers express support for Cambodian living wage
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Kimseng Men
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-retailers-express-support-for-cambodian-living-wage/2470747.html
Ministry Bans US-Backed Radio Broadcasts for Election Weekend
The Ministry of InforMation ordered local radio stations not to transMit prograMs froM U.S.-backed broadcasters over the election weekend, an official said. Voice of AMerica (VOA), the U.S. governMent’s official broadcaster overseas, and Radio Free Asia (RFA), a station funded in part by the U.S. governMent, ...
Workers at Factories Supplying Major Brands Continue Protests
About 3,000 garment workers from two factories that supply clothes to international brands Levi Strauss, H&m and Gap continued protesting for higher wages yesterday in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district, before marching to the ministry of Social Affairs. Upon arriving at the ministry, workers employed by the ...
H&M may raise prices to pay workers
Clothing giant H&m is considering raising retail prices and passing the buck onto the consumer to help pay higher wages to garment workers in poor countries. There won’t be any price increases in the short-term, but it “might be a possibility” in the future, Helena Helmersson, ...
Daniel de Carteret and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-may-raise-prices-pay-workers
No consensus on next move in SL drama
After the management of an embattled garment factory this week refused to follow a government order to reinstate 19 dismissed union leaders and activists, unionists and observers are at a divergence of opinion over how the state should respond. “It’s fairly unprecedented,” Dave Welsh, country director ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-consensus-next-move-sl-drama
Walmart and H&M Suppliers Pay Workers at Closed Cambodia Plant
Suppliers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Hennes &aMp; Mauritz AB (HMB) agreed yesterday to pay about $145,000 in back wages and severance to about 160 workers at a CaMbodian factory that closed in NoveMber, a labor activist involved in the deal said. The agreeMent, which ...
Union files assault court complaint
The Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) filed legal complaints yesterday, following allegations on Wednesday that police had assaulted seven garment workers, including a pregnant woman. Sa’ang district police chief Chea Socheat yesterday again denied officers had been violent during a strike ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020861260/National/union-files-assault-court-complaint.html
Fainting factory told to act
Another garment factory within the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories program was hit by a mass fainting incident yesterday. more than 50 employees of Heart Enterprise (Cambodia) Co Ltd began collapsing soon after starting their shift at the facility, in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district. An ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011090151398/National-news/fainting-factory-told-to-act.html
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ផាក់ ស៊ាងលី
http://bit.ly/2hJ2aUT
‘Fashion Mobs’ to press for living wage in Cambodia
Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these ‘fashion mobs’, they pressure H&m, Inditex (Zara), Levi’s and Gap to introduce a living ...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=118895
Unequal treatment at Cambodian factories
The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561588/National/unequal-treatment-at-factories.html
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http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082184/400m-solar-project-launched/
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Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083836/50m-boost-farming/