Timber Firm’s workers back

17 September 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
Angkor Flywood / Building and Word Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC) / labor / labor protests / timber / timber company / timber trade / wages / Wood / workers rights / working conditions

Employee at timber company Angkor Flywood in Kampong Cham province will return to work today after their bosses agreed yesterday to all but one of their demands: an increase in wages. Sok Kin, vice president of the Building and Word Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC), said yesterday that more than 300 workers had protested since Wednesday to demand nine points from their employer, including the assurance that pregnant workers be allowed to leave work 10 minutes early, and that workers be allowed to take two days’ paid leave if their family members are seriously ill or die. ... A representative of the workers, Chhay Oai, who will meet with employers to further discuss wage demands, said yesterday that the workers had gone on strike because they were tired of the factory abusing their rights. This included being forced to regularly work unreasonably long hours. ...

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