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Unions’ Push For $140 Wage Derailed
After setting up a working group specifically to include some of the country’s more militant union in wage negotiations for the garment sector that it has thrown out unions’ demand for a $140 minimum wage in favor of lower recommendation coming from the government and factory owners.A group of nine union leaders, nine factory representatives and nine government officials—a committee formed to help find common ground on a new wage for the embattled garment sector—held a secret vote on Thursday to choose among three options for a new minimum wage: $110, proposed by factory owners; $121, proposed by the government; or $140, from the unions.
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Mondolkiri Villagers Seek Cancellation of Rubber Concession
Representatives of 273 ethnic Bunong families from Mondolkiri province submitted a petition yesterday to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet in Phnom Penh, seeking the cancellation of an economic land concession they say has infringed on their ancestral lands. The government awarded the Villa Development Company a 728-hectare concession in 2011 to develop a rubber plantation in Sen Monorom City. Local villagers, however, complain that the company is clearing their resin trees and sacred forests on hundreds of hectares of land outside of its designated concession area in Sokdum commune.
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Tbong Khmum Villagers Block Road in Heart of Rubber Country
About 200 villagers involved in a protracted land dispute with a rubber company blocked National Road 7 in Tboung Khmum province;s Memot district yesterday to demand titles to land they say they have lived on since 1980.Holding images of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife, Bun Rany, the villagers blocked the major highway from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. in front of the district offices and blasted their demands through loudspeakers.
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New Thai Prime Minister Pays Official Visit
PM Hun Sen yesterday laid out the red carpet for Thai Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan Ocha as Thailand’s leader paid his first visit to Cambodia after seizing power in military coup in May.Mr. Hun Sen—a long-time ally of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose sister Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted in the May coup—warmly welcomed the former army chief to his office building in Phnom Penh, known as the Peace Palace.
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Union Wage vote split
Rather than reaching a consensus on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector as they were instructed, a tripartite working group will file two suggestions for the wage to the Ministry of Labor, neither supported by unions.
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Protesters want land titles
More than 300 People from communities in a land dispute with Memot Rubber Plantation Co, blocked a portion of National Road in Tboung Khnom province’s Tbong Khmum district yesterday to put pressure on authorities to grant them legal land titles.
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Cambodia rolls out red carpet for Prayuth
In a bid to reset its contentious relationship with Thai military, Cambodia yesterday laid out a lavish welcome for Thai coup leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan Ocha on His maiden visit to the kingdom, which was hailed by the government as historic.With Thai flags flying at full staff outside the Peace Palace, General Prayuth was warmly welcomed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in the opulent reception hall with a brass band, honour guard and a line of bowing foreign diplomats.
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Factory’s workers ordered back
Thousands of employees at Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s only publicly listed garment factory, will be back at the assembly line today after nearly two weeks on strike, accepting a court order to return to work.
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Man Killed by fireworks during king’s Celebration
A man was killed and seven others were injured last night when fireworks marking the 10-year anniversary of King Norodom Sihamoni’s coronation misfired, Sending shrapnel toward revelers in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, official said.
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ADB railway cash not coming as direct aid
The Asian Development Bank plan to spend $1.4 million to help increase capacity of the government committee tasked with providing additional compensation to families affected by a bank-funded railway rehabilitation project.
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Working group minimum wage vote due today
A group of union leaders factory owner and government representatives set up to negotiate a recommendation for a new minimum wage in the garment sector is due to meet today for a vote on a final figure, according to those involved in the talks.
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Garment Wage talks fall apart
The tripartite working group set up to negotiate and advise the Ministry of Labor’s Labor Advisory Committee on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector has stopped meeting after reaching a stalemate.Made up of 27 members – nine each from employers, the government and unions – the group ended talks after a meeting last night, when employer representatives refused to budge from a monthly wage of $110 per month, said panel member Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers.
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Villagers claim torture by Thai soldiers after their release
Three Cambodian men arrested in Thailand last week were returned to Preah Vihear province on Monday and claim they were tortured by Thai military before being released, according to a military colonel in the area who provided a video of the men’s accounts.The three men were handed over to Cambodian authorities at the An Ses border crossing, said Choam Ksan district Governor Chea Kimseng. “[Monday] at 11:30 a.m., we received three of our villagers from the Thai authorities,” Mr. Kimseng said.
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Five charded over K Cham Factory Clash
The Kompong Cham Provincecial Court yesterday charged a union official, two factory workers and two truck drivers with instigating violence and destroying property for Their role in a protest that turned violent on Saturday at the Juhui Footwear factory, court official said.Hak Taing Bun, the clerk for Investigating Judge Pok Sovanmony, confirmed that the suspects include Khun Sokhom, 31, an official for the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU); Mon Sarem, 29, a fired worker and former union representative at the factory; and Bien Sarim, 35, another fired worker.
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Five Juhui workers released
Half of the 10 people arrested on Saturday after a clash at a Kompong Cham shoe factory were released after being questioned in court yesterday, according to a union official.
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Airport families seek PM’s help
Villagers faced with losing their homes to the planned expansion of Phnom Penh International Airport and left in the dark about compensation sought help from Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday.
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Union Leader called to the court for questioning
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned two prominent union leaders for questioning on Friday over charges that they incited violence and property damage at a garment worker protest in Phnom Penh in January during which military police fatally shot at least five people. The summonses are dated October 9 and ask Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, and Yang Sophoan, who heads the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions, to “bring any documents related to the case above if they have them.”
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Calls to protest work of citizen journalists
Media experts are asking the government to consider granting citizen journalists the same safeguard as professional journalists under Cambodia’s Press Law.
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Protest in Koh Kong over arrest
About 60 people protested outside Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday after one of their community representative was questioned then detained over a land dispute with a LyongPhat-owned factory.
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Lone protester spend day at freedom park to protest ECCCC
A khmer rough survivor participating as a civil party at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia staged a one-man protest yesterday against the August conviction of Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan for crime against humanity.
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