Gap Factory Workers In Cambodia Are Striking To Get Wages Higher Than 28 Cents Per Hour
by AP, businessinsider.comMay 22nd 2012 6:31 AM
Ath Thon, director of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers, said workers are demanding an increase in their base pay of $61 a month for 8-hour days, six days a week.
He said they want a $5 salary hike and an extra $25 a month for transportation and housing.
SL Garment's website says it makes clothes for more than two dozen international labels that include , Old Navy, Banana Republic, H&M and Levi's, whose website in turn lists the company as a supplier.
"We will not stop our strike until our problems are solved," said Teng Ry, 24, one of thousands picketing the factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
He said workers were regularly required to work on their one day off a week or denied sick days and ordered to work up to 16-hour shifts.
Long shifts were compensated with overtime pay but factory owners were not respecting Cambodian labor law by requiring employees to work against their will, he said.
The factory was still operating with a limited staff.
Cambodia's garment industry is the main foreign exchange earner for the poor Southeast Asian country. Its garment exports in 2011 were worth about $4.3 billion.
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