A unionist protesting against the trade union law is punched in the face by Daun Penh district security outside the National Assembly on Monday. Ratana Keo
Rainsy accuses CPP of fearing strong unions
ppp Fri, 8 April 2016
Meas Sokchea
Self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy late on Wednesday night likened the Cambodian People’s Party-led government’s unease with a strong union movement to Soviet fears of the non-violent rise of the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, or Solidarity, which unseated a repressive Soviet-backed regime in the late 1980s.
Writing on his Facebook page, Rainsy said the government’s passing of the trade union law and violent backlash at protesters on Monday were emblematic of the current regime’s fear of a worker’s movement “fighting for freedom”.
“Because they are afraid that the workers’ movement fighting for social justice would bring down their authoritarian regime, similar to what happened in Poland in 1990,” Rainsy’s post read.
Solidarity, formed in 1980, was the first non-communist-controlled union in Poland, and despite close to a decade of political repression, was able to lead a coalition government in 1989.
Sok Eysan, spokesman for the CPP, said the ruling party was not afraid of workers demonstrating and reiterated the government’s view that the draft union law would serve the interests of workers, employers and unions.
“It is not the same as [Rainsy’s] idea is suggesting,” he added.
2 comments:
thanks to the Union the US and Europe have lost all their factories and manufacturing capabilities to china, mexico , south east asia... etc... corporations will just pack up and leave when they see their profits going down due to high labor costs and benefits imposed upon them by union . same will happen in cambodia , they will just shut down their factories and move to places like myanmar , pakistan or bangladesh where labor is abundant and cheaper etc...
Last week Lucky Goldstar has just announced an investment plan for 1.5 billion US dollars. Last month Samsung received an investment certificate for a 300 million US dollar for a Research and Development Center.
Vietnam already has many multi-billion dollar plants across the country. Cambodia has none. The opposition party continues to use the union to fight Mr. Hun Sen. As the result, no business with any reputation would want to come to Cambodia to risk trouble with the restless workforce. They go to Vietnam instead.
Both Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha are the con-artists who would ruin the country and the people for their own gain.
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