01 April 2008
By Nhim Sophal
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
While the negotiations between the factory owners and garment workers about a raise on the minimum salary seems to be on a deadlock, Hun Sen decided to resolve the situation by imposing a raise of $6 instead.
On Monday 31 March, in Phnom Penh, the committee in charge of salary raise was not able to reach on an agreement on this issue. While the worker unions asked for a raise on the minimum salary by $5, $12 or $15, the Garment Manufacturer Association of Cambodia (GMAC) which defended the interest of the factory owners, did not want to hear anything more than $4 of raise. On Monday also, Hun Sen made the decision. On his return from a diplomatic trip to Laos, he made his decision known through Ith Sam Heng, the minister of Social Affairs. “Hun Sen has decided to ask the owners to give an additional $6 to the minimum salary, and that this measure is effective starting April,” Ith Sam Heng announced. The current minimum salary is $50 per month, and the raise seems very low in comparison to the price increase of basic goods such as rice and gasoline during the last few months and days. Another committee session is planned for 04 April and it should be debating of the labor code. “So, the workers and the union leaders must remain calm and they should return back to their work, for everybody’s sake,” Ith Sam Heng concluded.
On Monday 31 March, in Phnom Penh, the committee in charge of salary raise was not able to reach on an agreement on this issue. While the worker unions asked for a raise on the minimum salary by $5, $12 or $15, the Garment Manufacturer Association of Cambodia (GMAC) which defended the interest of the factory owners, did not want to hear anything more than $4 of raise. On Monday also, Hun Sen made the decision. On his return from a diplomatic trip to Laos, he made his decision known through Ith Sam Heng, the minister of Social Affairs. “Hun Sen has decided to ask the owners to give an additional $6 to the minimum salary, and that this measure is effective starting April,” Ith Sam Heng announced. The current minimum salary is $50 per month, and the raise seems very low in comparison to the price increase of basic goods such as rice and gasoline during the last few months and days. Another committee session is planned for 04 April and it should be debating of the labor code. “So, the workers and the union leaders must remain calm and they should return back to their work, for everybody’s sake,” Ith Sam Heng concluded.
22 comments:
We want People Power to change Hun Xen's regime.
We want people power to chang this dictator regime.Hun Xen is very afraid about the people power!!!because the Phd .Tea Banh (without school) has asked youn Hanoi for militery's help on general election 2008!!
27.07 .2008 will be end the communist regime Phd:Hun Xen(without school and Hun Xen will die on 27.07.2008.
Hun Sen certainly knows how to make it tough for the oppositions.
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Folks, cut the cuteness and cut to the chase: "Vote CPP 2008!"
I thank you for your support!
Vote CPP!
I say forget the election and just go "Status Quo". That way we'll saved millions for something better.
We must support to the working class. If you work, you should be able to live from your pay. Anything less is evil in our society.
HUN SEN is the opportunist. He did not raise the minimum wage for the garment workers, he raises it for the votes.
In front of the increase of current living’s cost, the royal government made a concrete decision to increase the salaries of the garment workers of the 6-dollars.
sam rainsy suggests making demonstrations and increasing the salaries of all the civil servants without saying how he is going to find money to finance these salary rises.
And his friends in MONEASEKAR khmer suggest reducing the public spending.
In summary, sam rainsy to say a thing, and his friends say the opposite!
The proof is given that sam rainsy and his friends are incompetent and totally irresponsible politicians.
No, it is just that there is no money to give raise to worker.
Whatever the owner is payout here, the government will have to pay for part of it directly or indirectly. There is no free lunch, dude.
9:28PM Of course there is nothing free, But who is paying for the lunch?
-worker?
-corrupted goverment?
-or the factory owners?
That why we need people with real education who know the sample caculation to be in charge?
Vote for educated people plese for the future of our country !!!!-
one man show prime minister.
the law , the rule and the executioner will be Hun Sen so we do not need parliament or court house.
cambodia have no Freedom
9:48, there is no one more educated than the Coolest People Party (CPP),
and thank you for your votes.
Hun sen knew begining that he was poor man .how hard it is.it is the way if we are hungry and save family .communist ,china .viet cong made fool poor khmer to free right and equal but He is now in power and his back with viet nam and also kaun khmer .if he meant enough to help own blood or let them suffer or watch dying cambodian
He can do any things even Khmer King also bow head and stay quiet better than use ownlips
so let it be .
kaun khmer
To comment 9:25
If you want to know how Sam Rainsy manage to reduce the rising of the general price and improve Cambodian living, listen to his explanation in the
SRP Daily Radio Program http://www.samrainsyparty.org
and buy his autobiography book.
If you are really Khmer sralanh cheat (except you are Yuon ou lakey Yuons) like him you will respect and admire him even though you are a coward
Vote Sam Rainsy means save Khmers
from the destruction
Vote HUN XEN means vote Yuons to eliminate Khmers.
From SAMREK CHHEAM KHMERS NEAK SNE HA CHEARTT
That is what Lon Nol said, and we all got screwed big time.
Who in their right mind would wanted that?
sam rainsy and his friends react quite obviously with a time of delay in front of the problem which puts the inflation in the country.
sam rainsy tries to exploit in his advantage for the elections of 2008 the economic temporary difficulties imposed on the country by the bad international economic situation.
sam rainsy is a profiteer of the present situation by pushing people to demonstrations without proposing anybody serious and concrete solutions.
sam rainsy and his friends have no serious economic skill to resolve effectively the current economic problem which knows our country.
No economic solutions proposed by sam rainsy meet the agreement of the world bank’s experts and those of the IMF.
sam rainsy’s economic receipts for our country, it is the ones swindlers proposed to fair people.
Nobody is a dupe!
and
SAMREK CHHEAM KHMERS NEAK SNE HA CHEARTT :>>>pi khang mouk,pi
khang croeit, sne ha dollars américains !
From : Procheachoung khmer Pakniwath .
hi, sam rainsy,Try to be a little more serious the next time than you speak about the economy and not to talk nonsense.
Dictators will use the law to legitimize their power. This practice is very popular in Cambodia under Hun Sen leadership.
Never mentioning the national constitution or the important procedures of the law, Hun Sen himself is egoistic person who are above the law because he can order to release people imprisoning from land grabbers, giving them money (so-called compensation), appointing to high ranking positions of defectors, and finally order factories owners to raise to $6.
Without studying or dealing with the complicate issues such as corruption, bribery, and illegality; Hun Sen is number one and the best leader in Cambodia who can deceive and manipulate Cambodian peoples in all fields, all times, and all election seasons.
KY
it only fair to workers as commodity prices are also increasing in cambodia. in the west we called it increase of cost of living allowances (cola). so it makes sense that salary and wages also increased to balance this cola.
Good comment KY! Hope ah Kwack's son can read for his PHD father!
Who has the highest education in CPP?
HUN XEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PHD VIetname education!
Ah Samd'Ach Si-Cho!
GOOD GOOD GOOD !!! HUN SEN is doing it for pilitical purpose so that people will vote CPP.
In ohter hand, that s mean that he realize people power !!!! so in the future if the people are strong enough, they can kick out CPP!!
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