Honda Factory Workers Strike To Reinstate Union Officials

About 300 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that assembles Honda motorcycles went on strike yesterday to rally for the reinstatement of their union representatives, in accordance with an order by the Arbitration Council, union representatives said yesterday. Yoeurng Sopheara, a legal officer at Cambodia Labor Confederation (CLC) said CLC assisted in forming a new union in December at the Honda NCX Company in Pur Senchey district, called the Democratic Employee Union of NCX Company (Deunc). After Deunc’s creation, however, a union leader, a secretary-general, and two union activists were fired. …