သပိတ္ေမွာက္ ကေမာၻဒီးယားအလုပ္သမားမ်ား ေတာင္းဆိုမႈရ၍ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ ျပန္လည္၀င္ေရာက္
"Garment strikes in Cambodia's Bavet City continue Monday"
(ျမန္မာ့အလင္း ၂၀၁၄ခုနစ္ ဧျပီလ ၆)
PHNOM PENH, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of garment workers at some
30 factories in two special economic zones in Bavet City of Svay Rieng
province continued striking Monday to demand a 50 U. S. dollars bonus, a
trade union leader said. "Workers at those factories go on strikes
Monday to demand the 50 U.S. dollars bonus pay,"said Pav Sina, president
of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, which is one of the
eight opposition-aligned unions that lead the strikes. "They will
protest until factories give them the bonus."
Workers at the
Manhattan and Tai Seng special economic zones have staged strikes since
last week to demand the 50 U.S. dollars that they claimed that factories
had promised to give them when they did not join a post-New Year
strike, which was organized by the opposition-aligned trade unions in
mid-April.
However, the Garment Manufacturers Association of
Cambodia ( GMAC) denied that factories had made such promise and accused
the opposition-aligned trade unions of fabricating this information
after they failed to attract workers for their post-New Year wage
demanding strike.
It said during last week's illegal strikes,
workers had hurled stones at factories, threatened other workers not to
work and destroyed factories' properties. "GMAC envisages that this
outlawed action is evolving to violence and will spread to other
industrial zones if there are no preventive measures, so we urge the
Ministry of Labor and local authorities to curb these illegal strikes
immediately in order to ensure security and safety for investors,"GMAC
said in a statement late last week.
Heng Sour, spokesman for the Ministry of Labor, could not be reached for comments on Monday.
The garment and footwear industry, the kingdom's largest foreign
exchange earner, comprises 960 factories with about 620, 000 workers.
The sector earned 5.5 billion U.S. dollars in revenues last year.
Wage dispute in the sector remains hot since pro-opposition trade
unions, which represent about 19 percent of the total workers, still
demand the government and GMAC to raise the monthly minimum wages to 160
U.S. dollars from the current 100 U.S. dollars.
Editor: Shen Qing
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