Garment Workers Demand Pay Rise

[GolfCambodia]

Garment workers in Cambodia are demanding a pay rise, even though the minimum wage of $61 a month has been approved by the International Labour Organisation.

They have been hosting a tribunal to get their voices heard as Guy De Launey reports from Phnom Penh.

Video report from the BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16958078

[smurfystew]

More on the tribunal over at the blog - http://www.asiapundits.com/regions/se-a ... -industry/ -

[cambod]

They'll never be satisfied! Next thing u know they'll be wanting $0.30 per hour.....

[andyinasia]

They'll never be satisfied! Next thing u know they'll be wanting $0.30 per hour.....

And then flippin' oxygen, fewer noxious chemicals, straw for their dorm mattresses .... bloody commies, eh?

[kinglear#1]

They're well enough paid as it is...not a penny more, not a penny less than the going rate. They'll be threatening strike action next, after fainting...disgraceful

Irate reader, Birmingham

There, that's done it - a letter to the Daily Mirror...Hmmph

[Gary Gilmour's Eyes]

If they want more money, they need to show they deserve it. As the current productivity rates of Cambodian garment workers are 50-60% of their Vietnamese and Chinese counterparts, that isn't likely to happen for a while. Of course, they could always join the professional squatters, parasites and other assorted members of the Cambodian underclass and receive the fawning adulation of the PC morons who dominate these forums.

[Chuangt2u]

Brilliant - pennies an hour and the attentions of a time-and-motion man... what a life!

[Walter White]

They're allowed to forage for all of the insects and frogs they can find in their off work hours. And they often do it right on the property of their employers. Who couldn't live on $61 a month plus free frogs, rats and insects? Insects and frogs are like caviar for these people.

[johnny99]

The Garmet Workers are grossly underpaid and work in very horrible conditions. I have a friend who works in one and she works 10 to 12 hours a day 6 days a week. She gets about $80 usd a month. When she goes to work the guards working there lock the doors so nobody can get out. Last year there was an explosion and fire and the guards still would not let people out of the burning building. This is a Chinese owned knitting factory. The buildings are stifling hot. GGEyes says Cambodian workers are less productive. Well if a Viet or Chinese had to work under those conditions they would work slower too. Actually GGEyes is most likely pulling facts out of his ass. The Garmet Worker situation is much like the way it was in the USA in the 1920's or so. Very bad pay and very poor if not downright dangerous working conditions. The reason the Chinese are opening up garment factories in Cambodia instead of China is because in China you cannot treat your workers so badly in China. The Malay factory owners are even worse. The Garmet Workers are trying to make an honest living and deserve a bit of compassion. I am not posting this to be PC or as GGEyes calls it being a PC moron. If anything I am a far cry from anything PC. This thread has just pissed me off because these people are trying to make good in working and the main jist of this thread has been condescending snarking.

johnny

[andyinasia]

This thread has just pissed me off because these people are trying to make good in working and the main jist of this thread has been condescending snarking.

johnny

Are you unfamiliar with humour? With the sole exception of GGE, every poster, through sarcasm, is supporting the workers.

[johnny99]

AIA,

I understand and that is why I never said anything until reading GGE.

johnny

[eight]

The Garmet Workers are grossly underpaid and work in very horrible conditions. I have a friend who works in one and she works 10 to 12 hours a day 6 days a week. She gets about $80 usd a month. When she goes to work the guards working there lock the doors so nobody can get out. Last year there was an explosion and fire and the guards still would not let people out of the burning building. This is a Chinese owned knitting factory. The buildings are stifling hot. GGEyes says Cambodian workers are less productive. Well if a Viet or Chinese had to work under those conditions they would work slower too. Actually GGEyes is most likely pulling facts out of his ass. The Garmet Worker situation is much like the way it was in the USA in the 1920's or so. Very bad pay and very poor if not downright dangerous working conditions. The reason the Chinese are opening up garment factories in Cambodia instead of China is because in China you cannot treat your workers so badly in China. The Malay factory owners are even worse. The Garmet Workers are trying to make an honest living and deserve a bit of compassion. I am not posting this to be PC or as GGEyes calls it being a PC moron. If anything I am a far cry from anything PC. This thread has just pissed me off because these people are trying to make good in working and the main jist of this thread has been condescending snarking.

johnny

Having 3 of my extended family working in clothing factorys, I have to agree with you. I cannot see why '' production '' is always related to what is produced by ''workers ''. Why is it not related to the machine, the factory, or the $ invested. That way it would include the efficientcy of the management and others involved. If managers want to employ two workers for the price of one, and having one worker checking the garment, while the second worker checks the checkers work, then production per worker will definitly be low.

[vladimir]

If they want more money, they need to show they deserve it. As the current productivity rates of Cambodian garment workers are 50-60% of their Vietnamese and Chinese counterparts, that isn't likely to happen for a while. Of course, they could always join the professional squatters, parasites and other assorted members of the Cambodian underclass and receive the fawning adulation of the PC morons who dominate these forums.

We don't have a butt-kisser/apologist/propaganda consultant icon yet. As andy I think noted, when will the morons realise that working conditions affect productivity? The only possible answer is that they know it but choose to ignore it. But obviously, if workers suddenly started working harder, they'd stop demanding their poound of flesh, raise salaries and donate their easily-earned profits to a school or hospital, right?

The quote reminds me of the ten people sitting in a railway carriage and they're ALL thinking:

'I'm the only intelligent person here, look at all these programmed people'. (or words to that effect)

[Juan King]

It seems that the security have resorted to the old Khmer method of persuasion and started to shoot the workers.!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17098541

[vladimir]

More ricochets.

Shooting people...mm..sounds like a good strategy...uh, isn't that illegal? Here, have some money and shut up. OK, thanks, bye.