Blows at capital protest

22 March 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Coal / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Minerals and mineral products / Unions
CCAWDU / Coalition of Apparel Workers' Democratic Union / Evergreen Garment Company / factory protest / Ken Loo / Ken Loo Secretary-General of the Garment Manufacturers’Association in Cambodia / NACC / SEZ

A union representative is accused of beating a rival over the head with a walkie-talkie during a factory protest yesterday in the latest burst of violence in one of Cambodia’s special economic zones. Bou Sokray, 25, a representative for the Coalition of Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said he was injured when he was struck over the head numerous times outside the capital’s Evergreen Garment Company factory. He claimed his attacker was rival union rep Ket Sokhon, from the National Union Alliance Chambers of Cambodia (NACC), which C.CAWDU accuses of supporting the interests of Evergreen’s management. … [Ken] Loo said violence at factories was “an alarming trend” and it was time for unions to accept responsibility for some of it. ...

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