Tae Young strikers claim police abuse

8 October 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Labor
Factories / factory strikes / factory workers / labor rights / labor strikes / Tae Young factory / working conditions

Garment factory workers who set tyres ablaze during a strike on Friday claimed yesterday they were burned when police pushed them into their own fire.

Snguon Vannary was one of several workers who said his feet had been burned when police broke up the strike at Tae Young factory, in Ang Snuol province. ...

About 600 workers had gathered in front of the factory to demand their bosses reinstate 16 representatives and drop legal complaints filed against them. ...

Workers have vowed to continue striking and burning tyres today, and to march to the Ministry of Labor in the capital.

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