Governor Asks for More Time for Courts to Resolve 11-Month Workers’ Dispute

 VOD, Nov. 4, 2020

Workers at the Dignity Knitter and Eco Base garment factories, embroiled in a labor dispute for 11 months, say they will reconvene in 10 days after the Kandal provincial governor visited and asked that they give the courts more time to process their employer’s bankruptcy proceedings.

The dispute began in December due to late wage payments, leading the workers to keep up a 24-hour vigil outside the factories to prevent the factories’ owners from fleeing with equipment. The sister factories closed in April, and bankruptcy proceedings are currently before the Kandal Provincial Court to sell off property and pay owners’ debts.

Phin Sophea, head of the local union, said on Wednesday that he didn’t like the governor’s offer to create a committee of lawyers to help represent the workers. Authorities have already had months to help them, but nothing was resolved.

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