Union Won't Call Workers to Join RallyBy Chiep Mony, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
04 April 2008
The leader of one of Cambodia's largest unions said he would not call workers to join an opposition rally Sunday, following a $6 addition to wages Friday.
Government, management and worker representatives signed a deal Friday to bring the monthly wage of workers to $56 in the face of rising costs of living.
Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, who threatened sweeping strikes last week if salaries were not increased, said Thursday individuals should consider joining the rally.
"As an individual, I will join the demonstration," Chea Mony said.
He is a voluntary union leader, and inflation affects his living condition as much as anyone, he said.
He would not call on his workers to join en masse, he said.
The Sam Rainsy Party has called for a demonstration of up to 5,000 people in the capital to protest the government's inability to curb inflation.
Government, management and worker representatives signed a deal Friday to bring the monthly wage of workers to $56 in the face of rising costs of living.
Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, who threatened sweeping strikes last week if salaries were not increased, said Thursday individuals should consider joining the rally.
"As an individual, I will join the demonstration," Chea Mony said.
He is a voluntary union leader, and inflation affects his living condition as much as anyone, he said.
He would not call on his workers to join en masse, he said.
The Sam Rainsy Party has called for a demonstration of up to 5,000 people in the capital to protest the government's inability to curb inflation.
10 comments:
we all must stongly stand up to fight our right as khmer in our motherland .Don't let Hun /Ho feed us like ???????????
IF WE LOST it ,IS LOST OUR FUTURE and no home to stay .
Lost to who?
The SRP deserves to be disappointed.
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It is a dangerous game to make a mass protest at this time. SRP should find a better strategy! I am afraid the result is counterproductive.
Hope that i am wrong!!!
I will be there.
Student
Yeah, and I'll be ready to greet you with red carpet, but the only thing is the red carpet will be stained with your own blood.
VOA,& KI Media,
Chea Mony said in the report that he would not appeal to the worker to join the demonstration. It is up to them to decide.
SS
Hey you Viet pimp/parasite @1:07PM,
You have become very predictable with your style and classic act of pimping and being a parasite. KI-media readers can spot you at just the blink of an eye.
Quit pretending to be Cambodian/Khmer speaking out and up for Cambodian/Khmer people. Pack up and leave KI-media and Cambodia now.
After all you viet pimp/parasite @1:07 PM is the one that incriminates yourself here on KI-Media.
Don't make a bad name for Cambodian/Khmer and most of all don't make a bad name for the rest of your kind, the Viet pimp/parasite/plunderer okay?
Go home Viet, go home!
every people should be free to join a demonstration to demand that gov't of cambodia ought to do more to help cambodian people. more can be done as there are a lot of works to be done in cambodia to improve the cambodian people's standard of living, etc.
Well, our economy is the fastest growing economy in the world already, and you can't go faster than fastest.
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