Kampuchea Garment Workers Want To Improve Their Working Environment And Raise Their Basic Salary.

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Leaders and hundreds of garment factory workers walked up to Phnom Penh street to meet and ask the management to raise their basic wages by 77 dollars a month, adjusted to 177 dollars.

Clothing has become a pillar industry in Kampuchea. However, in recent years, Kampuchea garment workers have launched parade and rally activities in order to improve their own treatment.

Trade union leaders in Kampuchea and some 500 garment and shoemaking workers took part in a rally near an industrial park near Phnom Penh.

The workers wore an orange T-shirt with the "177 dollar" logo, asking the management to raise their monthly basic salary to $177.

"According to current wages, garment workers can not live a decent life," said Arton, chairman of the Democratic Alliance of garment workers in Kampuchea.

After the end of the rally, the Trade Union sent representatives to the foreign embassies in Cambodia and the Ministry of labour and vocational training in Kampuchea.

The clothing brands named by Kampuchea workers asking for a raise include GAP, Levi's, H&M, Puma and ZARA.

At present, Kampuchea clothing and

A total of 960, creating 620 thousand jobs.

The clothing and footwear industry pays about $1 billion a year for workers, and about 2 million people benefit indirectly.

This industry is the main source of foreign exchange in Kampuchea. The textile industry accounts for 90% of Kampuchea's total exports and is the leading pillar industry in the country.

In 2013, Kampuchea's clothing exports amounted to about $5 billion 500 million.

However, the labor conflicts often arise in Kampuchea's garment industry due to wage, safety and work environment problems, and sometimes disputes can also turn into violent incidents.

In January 2014, demonstrators in garment factories killed 4 people.

According to statistics released recently by the Ministry of Commerce of Kampuchea, in the first quarter of 2014,

The total export volume of shoes was 1 billion 560 million US dollars, up 16.41% from the same period last year.

Although the footwear industry in Kampuchea is still on the rise, the Cambodian footwear industry has been seriously affected by the strike of workers.

The representative of the Kampuchea Garment Manufacturers Association once said that the export data obtained by the shoe making and garment industry in 2014 were not acquired this year, but the order providers of 2013 ordered them.

This year, because of the strike problem, the orders for shoe making and garment factories have been greatly reduced. It is estimated that the export data of the shoe making and garment factories will decline at the end of this year or next year.