ILO Urges Cambodia’s Garment Unions, Manufacturers To Resolve Dispute

2 January 2014
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Concerned about ongoing protests in Cambodia which have virtually shut down the garment industry, the United Nations labor agency has called for an end to violence and destruction of property, as well as the swift reopening of the factories. “The risks arising out of the current situation are significant for a sector which continues to operate in an intensely competitive international environment,” the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) country offices for Thailand, Cambodia and Laos said in a news release. … The ILO called on all parties to fully implement a working agreement signed in 2010 and renewed in 2012 by the main trade union and the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia (GMAC), the trade body that represents some 470 factories making and exporting garments. The agency also said that a legislative framework for improving industrial relations has been developed in the form of the draft trade union law, and called on the Government to finalize and fully implement it in keeping with ILO principles and ratified international labor standards.

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