Cambodian garment workers demand higher wages [click to watch video broadcast]
Cambodia's garment industry makes up 80% of its exports and employs hundreds of thousands of people.
Strikes and violent demonstrations at garment factories in Cambodia have quadrupled over the past year, and a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that conditions at factories were worse now than they had been in recent years.
Strikes and violent demonstrations at garment factories in Cambodia have quadrupled over the past year, and a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that conditions at factories were worse now than they had been in recent years.
3 comments:
wow, they are allowed to protest and demand. i thought cambodia is dictatorship. so, it actually is democracy.
To 11:30AM
I thought so too until AH HUN Shit used his police force to beat up women and monks. And I thought to myself this must be democrazy under AH HUN SHIT leadership!
Well as Ken Loo said the consumers want cheaper and cheaper clothes while Cambodian garment workers want a living wage! why it is so wrong if the Cambodian garment workers want a living wage! Does global economy demand that Cambodian garment workers must work at prisoner wage?????
"Indeed, the stakes could hardly be higher for the states and the nations in this competition. At issue is whose standard of living will rise and whose will fall in a global economic environment that demands ever larger numbers of highly trained and educated workers."
http://www.highereducation.org/reports/hunt_tierney/tierney.shtml
Well...Cambodian government can't depend on garment sector to stimulate Cambodian economy because the garment manufactures can always relocate their factory to other countries and the whole Cambodian job market and Cambodian economy will collapse!
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