Representatives of about 1,000 factory workers at a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district said on Jan 11 that the owner had continued moving equipment out of their workplace this week, leading them to doubt promises that the business would remain open. The Ministry of Labour convened a meeting on Thursday of last week in an [...]

At least 23 people were killed and over 100 injured while many others remain trapped as a fire broke out at a garment factory of Ha-Meem Group at Ashulia in Savar on December 14, 2010. Of the deceased, two died on the spot while eight at Shinshin Japan Hospital, six at Ashulia Centre for Women [...]

Bangladeshi officials say three people have died and at least 100 have been injured as thousands of garment workers in two cities clashed with police. The workers were demonstrating Sunday to demand the implementation of a new minimum wage law enacted several weeks ago. Authorities say police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse [...]

A local union at the centre of strikes last month in the garment industry threatened to renew work stoppages if the cases of suspended union representatives were not resolved by the end of the month, according to the Phnom Penh Post on October 27, 2010. Ek Sopheakdey, the secretary general of the Coalition of Cambodian [...]

Thousands of Cambodian garment workers faced continuing victimisation by employers as talks commenced between union, employer and government representatives on 27th September 2010. Union leaders used the negotiations, called for by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, as the basis for calling off industrial action on September 16. The strikes had gone on for [...]

Union leaders have said that more than 600 garment workers have been dismissed from their jobs in connection with unrest in the industry last month, a figure disputed by industry representatives, according to the Phnom Penh Post. In a statement issued 5th October, the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union said 131 union representatives [...]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has requested for an amicable settlement of the employer-employee row going on in the garment industry. He wanted that, all protesting workers should resume work, while the court should quash all the complaints that the employers lodged against these workers. Sen who was speaking at the graduation ceremony at the [...]

No matter how you cut it, a pair of jeans is not worth a worker’s life. More than 42 young workers in Turkey died terrible deaths from silicosis after intense exposures to crystalline silica. These workers were sandblasting denim jeans in garment sweatshops so international clothing brands can charge triple price for jeans with the [...]

More than 3,300 garment workers have been fired from three factories in Kandal province after striking in defiance of court orders, union representatives said on 26th September. Unionists said the workers, who had been striking for around a week and were fired on Friday and Saturday, have threatened to organise larger protests if they are not [...]

Twelve garment workers were injured in clashes with police outside factories in Phnom Penh and Kandal province, following the suspension of more than 200 union representatives in response to last week’s large-scale strike, labour leaders said to the Phonom Penh Post on Saturday 18 September. Ath Thun, president of the Cambodian Labour Confederation, said the clashes [...]