Court places more restrictions on union leader

19 September 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Judiciary and courts / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Unions
Ath Thorn / Cambodian Legal Education Center / Canadia Industrial Park / CCAWDU / CLEC / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union / LICADHO / Licadho and the Cambodian Legal Education Center / Moeun Tola / Phnom Penh Municipal Court

Ath Thorn, the head of the country’s largest independent union, was placed yesterday under judicial supervision by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court a day after he joined demonstrations calling for a $177 monthly minimum wage for garment workers.

Mr. Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU), yesterday became the third union leader to be subjected to a court order prohibiting participation in public gatherings until their trial—over charges of causing intentional violence, making threats, destroying property and obstructing traffic—concludes. …

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