Strikers claim sexual harassment
Thousands of angry garment factory workers, en route yesterday to the Ministry of Social Affairs in a protest over alleged sexual harassment, were stopped in their tracks by about 100 armed police and ordered back to the workplace. More than 2,500 workers from Phnom Penh’s Ocean Garment factory, which manufactures clothing and footwear for retail giant Gap, made it barely 100 metres from the Dangkor-district site before police, bearing batons, intervened. On strike for more than a week, the workers have demanded the company’s director dismiss a manager who allegedly sexually harassed four female workers. … The workers, union delegates and government officials are due to sit down with company representatives today.
