Stonewalling at Angkor complex’s temple
THIRTY workers involved in the restoration of the Angkor complex’s Ta Prohm temple were barred by their manager from entering the work site yesterday because of their unionism, labour representatives said. The stand-off followed the manager’s announcement that on February 1, he would dismiss the 30 workers, who had been attempting to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement and calling for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to pay seniority benefits to seven other fired workers, American Center for Internat-ional Labour Solidarity program officer Khun Tharo said. … If Sood carried out his threat, all 145 workers would ask the Siem Reap authorities for permission to strike, said Eung Khoy, vice-president of the Angkor Preservation Workers Union-Indian-Cambodian Cooperation Project. …
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