Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday Jan 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on Jan 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on Jan 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]
Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday January 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on January 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on January 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]
PHNOM PENH (TrustLaw)–Sophea Chrek started working at a garment factory in Phnom Penh in 2000, at the age of 20, shortly after she dropped out of school to help support her family. Chrek found a way out of the garment industry in 2005, but she continues to surround herself with its politics and its workers’ [...]
A strike in the morning of November 8 at a garment factory located near the bend of a dirt road in Bonal Sa-ith village in Sen Sok district underscores the need for enhanced enforcement of labour legislation, the president of the Free Trade Union said on Nov 8. Chea Mony also said the strike over [...]
Several hundred garment workers conducted a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on 29 September, demanding payment of outstanding wages and allowances of workers at five garment factories. Protestors also sought legal compensation for dismissed workers from four garment factories. The pressure exerted achieved payment of the moneys owed by [...]
Jeans with a distressed, already-worn look have been popular since the 1990s, but one way the effect is achieved is by blasting them with sand – and this can give factory workers an incurable lung disease. So should we stop buying them? “I have difficulty breathing… When I return from work I feel so tired. [...]
Over 1,000 workers went on strike Thursday ( Sept 8 ) over low pay and a tightened work schedule at a factory in south China owned by the European lingerie giant Triumph International. The strike started Thursday morning at the Hainan Youmei Underwear Company in Haikou, capital of the southernmost island province of Hainan, with [...]
National Garments Workers Federation (NGWF) sought Prime Minister’s intervention in implementation of minimum wages in the garments sector. Addressing a pressing conference at DRU Sunday, Amirul Haq Amin, President of the federation said that about 30 per cent garment factories have not yet implemented the declared wages. Kamrul Ahsan, a leader of Bangladesh Workers Party [...]
Sri Lanka’s garment industry has launched a multi-million rupee campaign to bring in female workers shunning the country’s most profitable sector for better paying jobs. Executives at garment firms believe the industry is merely experiencing a bad image problem, but union officials say women are staying away because they get little respect and income from [...]
Burma’s poorly paid garment workers are anticipating a pay hike this year, report Thida Win and Yadana Oo. But this has to be put in perspective: 1,000 Kyat is equivalent to about US$1, so the pay rise is only about $10. To the delight of underpaid workers in Yangon, some of the local garment factories [...]
