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Sep 15, 2010
Sep 15, 2010
Nike, Adidas, Gap’s workers in Cambodia strike for more pay
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Europa Press
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Published
Sep 15, 2010
Sep 15, 2010
PHNOM PENH, (Reuters / EP) - Cambodian garment workers started a five-day strike on Monday to demand an increase in wages.
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The Democratic Coalition Union of Cambodian Apparel Workers, with 40,000 members, are expecting 80,000 people to go on strike, demanding a wage of $93 per month, a increase significantly lower than that agreed on between the government and unions in July who set salaries at $61.
The mobilization of Cambodians is similar to the recent happenings in China, which call into question the supposedly limitless source of manufacturing of low-cost products destined for the rest of the world.
Also in Bangladesh thousands of textile workers demanded a pay rise last month, from $43 to $73 per month. The protests ended up as riots with police involved and about 500 people injured. Similarly, in Vietnam, thousands of workers in a shoe factory went on strike in April.
In Cambodia, strikes have the support of prominent activists, including the Moeun Tola union, who confirms that big Western companies should fulfil their ideals of social responsibility and put pressure on Cambodian companies to pay at least $50 per month to its workers.
"Large companies like Nike, Adidas and Wal-Mart have a code of conduct that affects the Cambodian strikers and states that no worker should be; exploited, or receive a low wage, or are on contracts that last just a few months," the union said.
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