Thursday, 09 September 2010
Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post
UNION leaders have decided to go ahead with a five-day strike planned for next week to protest the newly established minimum wage for the Kingdom’s garment workers.
Several labour leaders met with officials from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia on Monday and said after the meeting that they would consider calling off the strike with an eye to benefit negotiations later this year, following the implementation of the new minimum wage in October. After an internal meeting yesterday, however, unionists said the strike would go ahead.
“We’ve kept our stance firm to hold the strike from September 13 to 18 because the workers don’t believe that the employers will negotiate with us after October,” said Rath Rott Mony, secretary general of the Cambodian National Labour Confederation. “This is just their trick.”
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Several labour leaders met with officials from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia on Monday and said after the meeting that they would consider calling off the strike with an eye to benefit negotiations later this year, following the implementation of the new minimum wage in October. After an internal meeting yesterday, however, unionists said the strike would go ahead.
“We’ve kept our stance firm to hold the strike from September 13 to 18 because the workers don’t believe that the employers will negotiate with us after October,” said Rath Rott Mony, secretary general of the Cambodian National Labour Confederation. “This is just their trick.”
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