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7 Cambodian Workers Arrested at Nike Contractor
- 3 June 2013
- ABC News
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Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.S. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ...
Family Accepts $9000 over Collapse Death
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- American Solidarity / American Solidarity Center director Dave Welsh / Bangladesh / compensation / construction / Dave Welsh / Factories / factory construction standards / Footwear / footwear factory / Garment Industry / garments / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue province / labor / labour / shoes / Solidarity Center / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / workers rights
The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong Spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim Sarouen, 22, ...
Fear Remains as Factory Reopens
- 21 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- ASICS / Asics supplier / Building Safety Regulations / Chea Sotharyrith / compensation / Development Movement Union of Cambodia Labour / Electrical Safety Measures / electrical short circuit / Electrical System Safety Measures / Electricity / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / footwear factory / Garment factories / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia Secretary General Ken Loo / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia Secretary-general / garment sector / Garment Workers / GMAC / health and safety regulations / Hong Seng Lim / illegal construction / Ken Loo / Kim Dany / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / labor / labour / mass faintings / Rim Roeun / shoes / shoes factory / Wing Star Development Movement Union of Cambodia Labour President Hong Seng Lim / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes factory / workers
More than 20 people fainted yesterday at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province, where two workers were crushed to death in a ceiling collapse last Thursday. Workers and union officials said an electrical short-circuit scared workers returning for the first time since the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165744/National/fear-remains-as-factory-reopens.html
‘Take it or leave it’
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / ASICS / Asics supplier / But Rorn / Cambodia Defenders Project / Community Legal Education Center / compensation / Dave Welsh / Factory collapse / footwear factory / illegal construction / Kampong Speu Province / Kim Dany / Kong Pisei district / Manslaughter / Moeun Tola / neglect / negligence / Rim Roeun / shoes / shoes factory / Sim Srey Touch / Sok Sam Oeun / Sum Sophorn National Social Security Fund / Wing Star incident / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes factory
The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065719/National/take-it-or-leave-it.html
