Sam Rainsy Visits Svay Rieng’s Protesting SEZ Workers
| Author: | Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns |
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| Source: | The Cambodia Daily, http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ |
| Publication date: | 2013-12-24 |
| Document type: | Information |
| Quoted by: | 查颖 |
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday visited thousands of workers from two special economic zones (SEZs) in Svay Rieng province who have been on strike over wages and working conditions since December 16.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>More than 25,000 workers from 36 factories in the Manhattan and Tai Seng Bavet SEZs began striking last week to demand an immediate increase of the minimum wage from $80 to $154 and for their factories to stop fining workers $15 for each day they are absent from work. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Most of the workers have remained at home since Wednesday, when 13 strike leaders were detained by police for throwing rocks at factories in defiance of an agreement to end the strike reached by union leaders and authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Arriving at Manhattan SEZ, which hugs the Vietnamese border, at about 7:30 a.m., Mr. Rainsy told the few thousand workers who had turned out to strike that the CNRP supported their demands for an immediate increase to the minimum wage for garment factory workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“We’ve demanded an increase to the minimum wage in January next year, but the authorities and factory owners have conspired to agree to raise the wage…only in 2018, and so all of you are going to die of starvation,” he says in a video of the speech uploaded to his Facebook page. (</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">查颖，摘自：<span lang=EN-US>Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns; The Cambodia Daily, <a href="http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/"><span style="COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>sam-rainsy-visits-svay-riengs-protesting-sez-workers-49605/</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">，<span lang=EN-US>2013-12-24)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26pt; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-line-height-rule: exactly" class=MsoNormal><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p> |
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