Unions and workers refuse to pay $ 100 and go on strike

- Unions and workers rejected the pay increase factory workers only $ 100 per month to maintain demonstrations to demand a pay increase to $ 160 per month .
Minister of labor and vocational training Ith Sam Heng on Tuesday decided to have an installed base salary current $ 80 to $ 100 for garment workers , clothing and footwear , and the increase in salary apply from 1 February 2014 onwards .
Thorn Federation president CCAWDU Said on Wednesday that the union workers do not agree on the increase in the wages .
« Union assembly , and that number is still small , and we want to have a chat What plant and the government to have access to only a few . I spoke with workers and they have not yet agreed said .
Factory workers began strikes and subsequent strike since December 24 , is when the Commission Council of government has decided to raise the minimum wage workers only $ 95 per month . workers union and claims that it can not draw enough inflation of prices in the market today .
They require minimum base salary of $ 160 per month , but the government and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC ) refuses to pay .
Unions and workers led demonstrations three days last week and early this week in front of the Ministry of Labor and Vocational training by no results yet .
Chea Mony , president of Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia, said that although workers to pay $ 100 a month , they still can not spend enough .
« $ 100 there are insufficient workers spend . Inflation market So when workers unemployed Millennium Workers will migrate . When migrant workers garment industry self . So we should wage workers to prevent workers not to migrate While the garment industry also profits .
Garment factory is the most important industry in the country that serves the dominant exports of poor countries .
More than 40 thousand workers are employed by the sector .
September Mengchheang children served in plant Along National Highway 2 to react with anger and do not accept the installation pay only $ 100 , because she thought that wage this is still not enough .
I say milestone just dogs they also beef Dance I never had a beef bite again .
They do not know that the appointment negotiations between the unions with the factory owner to resolve the crisis wages workers at any time .
Ken Loo , secretary general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia do not answer the phone , including messages e - mail .
However , unions and workers scheduled to strike at its factory from Thursday onwards .