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| Factory workers employed by Mirae Apparel recover at the Cambodia-Russia Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh following a mass fainting episode yesterday at the company’s factory in Meanchey district. (Photo by Pha Lina) |
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post
Chae Yi, an administrative manager at Sabrina, said “the fainting [was] the result of exhaustion from long nights of dancing”.
Workers deemed at risk of fainting were sent home yesterday morning after arriving at the gates of Sabrina (Cambodia) Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, following two mass fainting incidents at the facility last week, union officials said.
Ouk Lina, an administrative officer at the Free Trade Union who visited the factory yesterday, said more than 100 staff were sent home because they looked exhausted and the company, which supplies Nike, was determined to avoid a third mass fainting incident.
He described Sabrina as a “five-star factory”, saying it was among the best in the Kingdom. He said, however, that the garment industry drained its workers of energy and drove them into poor health.
Declining health was noticeable “after about six months of working in a factory”, Ouk Lina said. “The problem is that because of the long hours they work, their health declines.”
He also dismissed as “unbelievable” a company official’s statement that the women were in poor health because they spent their nights drinking and dancing. Chae Yi, an administrative manager at Sabrina, said “the fainting [was] the result of exhaustion from long nights of dancing”.
Ouk Lina said the fainting began last Wednesday when workers were overcome by fumes from glue used for tiling a floor. More than 300 workers fainted in two separate incidents.
Meanwhile, fainting continued yesterday at Mirae Apparel factory in the capital’s Meanchey district, where 28 staff fainted on Friday. Thou Channa, director of Khmer Youth Union, said four workers fainted there yesterday.
Mirae, unlike Sabrina, does not have a licence to export clothing. All exporting garment factories in Cambodia are monitored by the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories Cambodia programme for compliance with Cambodian law and international labour standards.
Factory faintings, however, have raised questions about working conditions. Opposition MP Mu Sochua on Sunday called for a boycott of global brands, including Nike, which failed to investigate fainting incidents at their suppliers here.
Nike has not responded to requests for comment.
2 comments:
Chaey Yi, said the mass fainting was a result from dancing and staying up all night!!
The kingdom of wonder, all these factory workers have parties every night!!!
They are having much more fun then all of us!
1:57 PM,
Chaey Yi has a big mouth!
Why shouldn't this bitch Chaey Yi work there and see what this bitch thinks of?
This bitch will be fainted when this bitch works in such the bad condition. This bitch Chaey Yi should think about it before this bitch has the big mouth.
At the party all night, there are some poisonous drinks like poisonous alcohol made in evil Communist Vietnam, killing people.
Vietnam is the most evil nation on the planet. Those fucking Yuon in Vietnam and in Cambodia are still the dirty and stupid animals without thinking of being shameful and bad human being on the planet. Yes, those Yuon don't even care if they [Yuon] kill someone to steal.
Those illegal Yuon and Yuon in Vietnam are still like evil and dirty animals without human brains and they are still very dumb without thinking the land and property are not belonged to Yuon.
Those land and property were belong to Yuon.
They only used their dirty mind and stupid thinking by cheating and betting to steal the land and property from Khmer/Cambodian people.
How evil Yuon/Vietnamese
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