Despite Employer’s Concessions, Workers Vow to Continue Protest
Workers at the Beautiful Spring Footwear factory in Takeo province refused to end a two-day protest on Saturday after management ceded to most of their demands but refused to raise their good-attendance bonus. The factory’s roughly 1,000 workers started protesting outside the building on Friday, two days after a production-line manager allegedly threw a shoe at a pregnant woman. In addition to seeing the line manager fired, the protesters’ 19 demands include an increase in their monthly bonus for good attendance from $10 to $15, a lunch allowance of about $1, more fans and more purified drinking water. …
