Customers shop in the newly opened H&M shop in Shanghai April 12, 2007. (Photo: Reuters)Friday, May 18, 2007
By Nhim Sophal
Cambodge Soir
Unofficial translation from French by Tola Ek
Click here to read Cambodge Soir’s original article in English
Challenge between the workers and the management at the River Rich factory over layoffs.
Members of the CCAWDU (Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Worker Democrat Union) prepare to burn down this morning in front of the River Rich factory, clothes made for the Zara, H&M and Inditex SA labels. The union wants to take this action to attract the attention of these major label companies on the plight of their colleagues who were laid off. During this occasion, At Thun, CCAWDU President, indicates in a communiqué that he will hold a press conference to remind about the fate of the 30 union members laid off by the factory in 2006.
Among those laid off, 10 of them still uphold their complaint to the court, but 20 others have dropped their cases in exchange for a sum of money proposed by the factory owner. At Thun will also talk about the violations of the work code perpetrated by the Chinese owner of this factory, located in the Kandal province, about 20 kilometers from Phnom Penh. He hopes that this spectacular action will have an impact on the large companies such as Zara and H&M, and also on the behavior of the River Rich owner.
Members of the CCAWDU (Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Worker Democrat Union) prepare to burn down this morning in front of the River Rich factory, clothes made for the Zara, H&M and Inditex SA labels. The union wants to take this action to attract the attention of these major label companies on the plight of their colleagues who were laid off. During this occasion, At Thun, CCAWDU President, indicates in a communiqué that he will hold a press conference to remind about the fate of the 30 union members laid off by the factory in 2006.
Among those laid off, 10 of them still uphold their complaint to the court, but 20 others have dropped their cases in exchange for a sum of money proposed by the factory owner. At Thun will also talk about the violations of the work code perpetrated by the Chinese owner of this factory, located in the Kandal province, about 20 kilometers from Phnom Penh. He hopes that this spectacular action will have an impact on the large companies such as Zara and H&M, and also on the behavior of the River Rich owner.
5 comments:
WTF? Hey, if someone doesn't want
the crappy job get the hell outta
there. We got plenty of people
who wanted jobs. Don't fucking
push any khmer jobs out the door,
you morons!
Hi 7:02. I assume you are yourself working in a garment factory in Cambodia, and have first hand knowledge of the conditions, and that no other workers have legitimate complaints? You asshole.
Cambodia needs to copy the economic model of Ireland! In the beginning, Ireland have a lot of job created by foreign factories but soon these foreign factories packed their shit and left and all of sudden there is no more jobs!
Now things had change for the better! The Irish government encourages indigenous factories to stay in business and employed local people! The logic behind this is that it is hard for indigenous factories to move to other countries because the owner of the factories is also part of the local or community and the factories owners have responsibility to see that the factories are running and willing to work the local people! This is a win-win solution to economic stability in the country!
Cambodian people are business minded people! They don't need no low paying job and what they need is the opportunity to do commerce with other countries around the world!
AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave better pass the anti-corruption law so that other countries can do business with Cambodian people!!
Pass anti-corruption law now!
7:57, burning garment goods is not
complaining, but destroying things,
and it will not be tolerated here.
And yes 3:09, currently we are
supporting both foreign and
domestic businesses. We don't have
no choice. We must have something
for people to do; otherwise, they
will turned to terrorist, drug
dealers, pimps, ..., and what have
you. This will certainly destroyed
our country. Furthemore, with a
good portion of population being
jobless, we are in no position
to be picky.
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