More workers join Svay Rieng strike

14 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce
Bavet town / Coalition of Cambodia Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union / Collective Union of Movement of Workers / Kandal Province / Long Bright factory / Manhattan Special Economic Zone / minimum wage / minimum wage increase / Pav Sina / Special Economic Zones / Svay Rieng Province / Svay Rieng Provincial Labour Department / Takhmao town / Tay Seng Special Economic Zone / Va Sarorn / Yung Wah Industrial garment factory

Workers from at least six more factories in Bavet town’s Manhattan and Tay Seng Special Economic Zones joined about 5,000 workers who had been on strike since yesterday for a minimum wage increase and better working conditions. … Va Sarorn, director of the Svay Rieng provincial labour department, said yesterday that work had been suspended for all workers from all factories in the Special Economic Zones – areas with high concentrations of factories – until a resolution had been found. Meanwhile, about 7,000 workers at the Yung Wah Industrial garment factory complex, which apparently has closed, continued to block road 21B in Kandal province’s Takhmao town for a second day to demand their two-month-overdue salaries. …

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