Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese companies try to smash unions after Cambodia’s largest ever strike – solidarity needed!
Thursday, 18 November 2010.
Dikang
Source: ChinaWorker.info
In Cambodia, 94 workplace union representatives remain suspended from their jobs with no income, following the magnificent four-day national strike in September. A further 685 workers who protested the suspensions of these worker representatives have been dismissed, according to the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU). The companies, many Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong owned have been using the law courts, spewing out injunctions, and hiding behind a battery of undemocratic anti-union legislation, in a blatant attempt to crush union organisation in the country’s main manufacturing sector.
The unions are now threatening new strikes: “We will do the strikes in front of stores and clothing shops, and we will announce to the world that garment factories in Cambodia abuse workers’ rights,” the secretary general of CCAWDU, Ek Sopheakdey, has warned.
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The unions are now threatening new strikes: “We will do the strikes in front of stores and clothing shops, and we will announce to the world that garment factories in Cambodia abuse workers’ rights,” the secretary general of CCAWDU, Ek Sopheakdey, has warned.
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