Workers at Factories Supplying Major Brands Continue Protests
About 3,000 garment workers from two factories that supply clothes to international brands Levi Strauss, H&M and Gap continued protesting for higher wages yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, before marching to the Ministry of Social Affairs. Upon arriving at the ministry, workers employed by the Singaporean-owned SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd. blocked the busy Monivong Boulevard for about an hour while more than 10 district police officers tried to push them back to allow traffic to pass. At about noon, 20 worker representatives were allowed to go inside the ministry, where officials told them they would help them reach a resolution, said Ath Thon, director of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers of Democratic Union. …
