Cambodian garment workers rally over jobs
Around 4000 Cambodian garment workers are protesting after a factory supplying global brands including Gap and H&M fired hundreds of their colleagues for striking over conditions.
Union leaders said the Singapore-owned SL Garment Processing factory fired 720 workers on Wednesday while more than 5000 others were suspended after a two-week long strike. …
The workers on Thursday marched about 10 kilometres from the factory to Phnom Penh’s City Hall to urge the government to intervene in the dispute. …
The multibillion-dollar industry employs about 650,000 people and is a key source of foreign income for the impoverished country. …
The kingdom was failing to make progress in areas such as worker and fire safety and the use of child labour, the ILO said in a report. …
MSN NZ News Staff
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