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| Rong Chhun (left), president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, and Ath Thorn (right), president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, speak to reporters yesterday. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan) |
Thursday, 02 June 2011
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
Surya Subedi, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights, agreed to take concerns raised over the government’s draft union law during a one-hour meeting with union leaders Ath Thorn and Rong Chhun to a meeting of the UN in Geneva in June, the pair told reporters yesterday.
Outside the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Phnom Penh, Ath Thorn, president of Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, said he had raised concerns with Subedi that the law would give excessive arbitrary state control over trade unions.
“This law restricts the creation [of unions] and when they are already created it makes it easy to destroy them,” he said.
“And when they are destroyed, the leaders of [the unions] face imprisonment.”
Particular attention was drawn, Ath Thorn said, to article 85 of the law, which he said allows the imprisonment of those who obstructs the operation of a business.
Om Mean, secretary of state of at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training defended the draft law yesterday, saying continuing debate within the government was intended to ensure the law struck the right balance between the interests of unions, employees and employers.
Rong Chhun and Ath Thorn said they also raised concerns at yesterday’s meeting over workers from 13 factories who had been refused permission to return to work after participating in garment strike in September last year that involved tens of thousands of employees. Surya Subedi could not be reached for comment.
2 comments:
All we need to do is to destroy the root of Vietcong/Yuon in Cambodia that is a foundation of the stupid Hun Sen. All Khmer people need to tell the world communities and the UN about the Yuon/Vietcong communist leaders in Cambodia or Phnom Penh wh are behind the Hun Sen. Let the UN and International Communities, EU, USA and other powerful countries to put pressure on Vietcong/Yuon Communist leaders in Hanoi and put sanctions against Communist Vietnam or Communist Hanoi bastards and then Hun Sen will be weaken and people of Cambodia including Khmer Krom and Khmer Surin will take the stupid Hun Sen and his CPP members (top ranking officials) and his family down.
Hun Sen is a machine of Communist Hanoi just like a robot machine and he was operated by evil Hanoi Communist leaders.
Now, Khmer people can see what is like in Cambodia today as the crystal clear. The International Communities and the UN including USA, Canada, UK, China, and other countries will begin to look into what Vietnamese Communist leaders doing illegally and brutally in Cambodia in their secret plans to steal or over take everything from Cambodia to evil Communist Vietnam.
Don't worry, Khmer people. Vietnam will face the biggest problems in front of the International Communities, the UN, USA, China, UK, Brazil, Canada, Aussie, and other countries. Communist Vietnamese leaders and its supporters (some people of Vietnam) will confront the massive questions and they (Vietnamese/Yuon) will pay back what they took, multi-billions of dollars for more than three decades using Hun Sen as their puppet along Khmer Rouges (Yuon and Khmer Vietminh like Hor Nam Hong, Sok An, Sok Kong, Yeay Phu, etc). Wait and see in the near future.
It will be a laughable for the stupid country like evil Communist Vietnam whose evil Viet/Yuon leaders in Hanoi will be ashame and embarrassed in the world.
បើគ្រាន់បើម្តេចក៏មិនកម្ចាត់អាពតដែលពួកវាបាន
សម្លាប់ពលរដ្ធខ្មែរដ៏សាហាវកាលពីជុំនាន់នោះផង?
លុះដល់ឥឡូវគេកម្ចាត់អស់ពលពតហើយបែរជាថា
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