Cambodia’s Free Trade Union offers minimum wage plan
In the latest bid for an increase in garment-industry wages, Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony yesterday called on the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) to come to the table and discuss a $120-per-month minimum wage. A few days after Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun — Mony’s former ally — called for wages to be lifted to $150 a month, the FTU leader put forward a similar case, using huge profits and higher wages in neighbouring countries as justification. “In order to improve their living situation, I suggest you [GMAC] organise a meeting to negotiate providing garment and shoe workers a $120-per- month full-time wage and $115 for probation workers,” Mony wrote in the letter, dated yesterday. …
