Cambodia’s unions cry foul on fainting figures
Union reps and government officials are offering significantly different – if both substantial – numbers in their year-end tallies of garment workers who fainted on the job in 2012. The Free Trade Union yesterday announced that the number of workers to faint in factories rose to more than 2,100, while the government maintained the number had decreased in the past year, finishing at 1,686 workers. Bad fumes and other poor working environment conditions, overtime work and low wages that kept workers in poor health contributed to a total of 2,107 garment workers fainting in 29 factories in the past year, the FTU reported. …
