• NGO Declares Coca-Colas Visit Compromised by Police

    NGO Declares Coca-Colas Visit Compromised by Police

    • Released Date: 03-Mar-2014

    NGO Declares Coca-Colas Visit Compromised by PoliceBY AUN PHEAP | MARCH 3, 2014Auditors from the Coca-Cola Company visited Oddar Meanchey province on Friday to investigate allegations of land grabbing against sugar plantations that supply the global

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  • Free the 23: meet the global campaigners supporting Cambodias garment workers

    Free the 23: meet the global campaigners supporting Cambodias garment workers

    • Released Date: 28-Feb-2014

    Fri, 28 February 2014Emily WightSince the government imposed a ban on public assembly following garment worker strikes that turned violent on January 2 and 3, there hasnt been much visible protest action on the streets of Phnom Penh. Rights advocates

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  • Hong Kong lawyer talks arbitration

    Hong Kong lawyer talks arbitration

    • Released Date: 28-Feb-2014

    Fri, 28 February 2014Eddie MortonThis week, reporter Eddie Morton talks to the Hong Kong governments top legal official, Rimsky Yuen. As part of a whirlwind trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, Yuen stopped off for a day in Phnom Penh, where he promoted Hon

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  • Labor Ministry Denies It Has Stopped Recognizing Unions

    Labor Ministry Denies It Has Stopped Recognizing Unions

    • Released Date: 28-Feb-2014

    BY AUN PHEAP | FEBRUARY 28, 2014The Labor Ministry in a statement Thursday insisted that unions were still free to register as entities recognized by the government, a day after a ministry spokesman said that union registration had been effectively s

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  • Leaflet Arrests Questioned

    Leaflet Arrests Questioned

    • Released Date: 28-Feb-2014

    Fri, 28 February 2014Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean TeehanThe arrests and temporary detainment of two union activists for passing out pamphlets yesterday has union supporters and a prominent lawyer questioning whether a law even exists that would jus

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  • Union Representatives Detained for Distributing Strike Leaflets

    Union Representatives Detained for Distributing Strike Leaflets

    • Released Date: 28-Feb-2014

    BY MECH DARA | FEBRUARY 28, 2014Two union representatives said that they were detained and “educated” Thursday for distributing leaflets calling on workers to participate in a nationwide strike next month.Yin Saroeun, secretary-general of the Nationa

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  • Scores of factories ‘set to sue over wage strike

    Scores of factories ‘set to sue over wage strike

    • Released Date: 27-Feb-2014

    Thu, 27 February 2014Sean Teehan The owners of 170 factories have handed power of attorney to the nations factories association ahead of a potential lawsuit directed at the leaders of six union groups.Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GM

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  • As Garment Sector Strikes Loom, Soldiers Watch Over Factories

    As Garment Sector Strikes Loom, Soldiers Watch Over Factories

    • Released Date: 27-Feb-2014

    BY MECH DARA AND ALEX WILLEMYNS | FEBRUARY 27, 2014Armed soldiers will continue to patrol Veng Sreng Street, the garment factory-lined thoroughfare in Phnom Penhs Pur Senchey district where military police shot dead five workers during a nationwide s

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  • Govt Suspends Freedom of Association for Unions

    Govt Suspends Freedom of Association for Unions

    • Released Date: 27-Feb-2014

    BY AUN PHEAP | FEBRUARY 27, 2014Following a complaint from the Free Trade Union (FTU) over the Ministry of Labors refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom o

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  • Boycott a tough call for many

    Boycott a tough call for many

    • Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

    Wed, 26 February 2014Mom Kunthear, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean TeehanOutside the Bloomtime Embroidery factory in Por Sen Chey district yesterday, Chenda, a 23-year-old garment employee, said he would refuse overtime work this week, even though it

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  • Strike Justified, Suppression Not, Experts Say

    Strike Justified, Suppression Not, Experts Say

    • Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

    BY LAUREN CROTHERS | FEBRUARY 26, 2014Garment workers calls for a $160 minimum wage are justified and should be honored, a new report by an international team of academics and labor experts has found.The authors—including a team from the University o

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  • As Workers Boycott Overtime, CPP Goes on Counteroffensive

    As Workers Boycott Overtime, CPP Goes on Counteroffensive

    • Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

    BY MECH DARA | FEBRUARY 26, 2014As thousands of garment factory workers continued to boycott working overtime in the first phase of a threatened nationwide strike, Prime Minister Hun Sen and CPP-aligned union leaders have launched their own campaign

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