PHNOM PENH, 27 May 2013 (Reuters) - At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike, a worker and a trade union representative said.
Police with riot gear were
deployed to move about 3,000 mostly female workers who had blocked a
road outside their factory owned by Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, west of the capital, Phnom Penh.
Sun Vanny, president of the Free Trade Union (FTU) at Sabrina, told Reuters the injured included a woman who was two months pregnant and who had lost her child after military police pushed her to the ground.
"There was a pregnant woman among them. She lost blood and then she lost the baby," he said.
According to the International Monetary Fund, garments accounted for 75 pct of Cambodia's total exports of $5.22 billion in 2011.
Low-cost labor has attracted manufacturers making clothes and shoes
for Western brands but strikes over pay and working conditions have
become common.
This month, two workers were killed at a factory making running
shoes for Asics when part of a warehouse fell in on them. Police revised
down the original death toll of three given by a minister.
A series of deadly incidents at factories in Bangladesh, including
the collapse of a building last month that killed more than 1,000
people, has focused global attention on safety in factories in Asia
makes goods for Western companies.
Sun Vanny said the workers making the Nike clothing
had been staging strikes and protests since May 21. They want the
company, which employs more than 5,000 people at the plant, to give them
$14 a month to help pay for transport, rent and healthcare costs on top
of their $74 minimum wage.
"Police used an electric baton to hit me on the head and if other
workers hadn't pulled me away, I would be dead," Leng Pros, a
28-year-old male worker, told Reuters from his hospital bed. "I didn't
know what happened next, I fell to the ground."
Police and military police officials declined to comment on the
clash, saying they were still collecting reports. No immediate comment
was available from Nike Inc.
(Reporting by Prak Chan Thul; Additional reporting by Amy Sawitta
Lefevre in Bangkok; Editing by Alan Raybould and Robert Birsel)
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2 comments:
good jobs by breaking the groups
I fully support this action,,
these protester's caused a lot of problems by closing the road..
good job by re-enforce the law, can't let these peoples do whatever they want
The police has done a good job for the opposition. This is election time, and voters can see how brutal the police is. It's a campaign for the opposition party.
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