Civil Servants Urged to Strike for Higher Pay

10 January 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Government / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Buth Kosal / Cambodia Independent Teachers’ Association / Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association / CICA / CITA / Council of Ministers / Phay Siphan / Rong Chhun

A group representing public-sector workers has called on the country’s civil servants to follow in the footsteps of teachers and begin a peaceful strike to demand higher salaries. A statement disseminated Thursday by the Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA), which claims to have 1,530 members, said the current salaries of government workers are not sufficient in the face of rising prices, and called on the government to introduce a minimum monthly wage of 1 million riel, or $250, with a promise to raise salaries, in due course, to 2 million riel, or $500. … CICA vice president Buth Kosal said members of the association should “start striking from now on with the Cambodia Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA), which is striking and asking for the same amount of salary across the country.” …

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