Ta Prohm restoration workers go on strike

6 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Siem Reap
Angkor Preservation Workers Union-Indian-Cambodian Cooperation Project / Archaeological Survey of India / ASI / Cambodia’s APSARA Authority / Chan Sokhom Cheta / Eung Khoy / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / Siem Reap province’s Labour and Vocational Training Department / Siem Reap provincial authorities / Strikes / Ta Prohm temple / worker rights / worker strikes

The entire work force of the Ta Prohm temple restoration project in Siem Reap – more than 100 people – gathered at the temple yesterday to demand the reinstatement of 30 of their number [sic] who were dismissed at the start of the month. The 145 workers plan to ask the Siem Reap provincial authorities for permission for a formal demonstration if Deyendra Singh Sood, the manager of the project run by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for Cambodia’s APSARA Authority, did not soon agree to reinstate the workers, said Eung Khoy, vice president of the Angkor Preservation Workers Union–Indian-Cambodian Cooperation Project. ... Workers allege that the 30 who were dismissed were targeted because of their attempts at collective bargaining, but Sood said the workers’ dismissal was a routine budgetary decision made not by him but by the APSARA authority. ...

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