Striking Garment Workers Target Puma

Khmer Times/Pav Suy and Chea Takihiro

Monday, 20 July 2015

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Striking workers from a factory that makes Puma brand garments rallied yesterday against a back-to-work order.

Roughly 200 garment workers from Akeen Tex Pte., located in western Phnom Penh’s Canadia Industrial Park, protested the order as they marked the second week of their strike.

“Puma brand needs to give a solution to workers,” read signs held up by the striking workers, overwhelmingly women.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13502/striking-garment-workers-target-puma/

Workers protest court injunction

Tue, 21 July 2015

Mom Kunthear

Days after Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued an injunction ordering striking workers at a Phnom Penh garment factory to return to work within 48 hours, strike supporters demonstrated outside the court yesterday.

Judge Pich Maren released the return-to-work order on Thursday, after Akeentex Pte Ltd, where workers at their Meanchey and Por Sen Chey district branches walked off the job about two weeks ago, filed a complaint to the court.

“[The Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW)] officials must stop activities such as provoking workers, bringing speakers in front of the factory and blocking the factory’s entrance and the road in front of it,” part of Maren’s order reads.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-court-injuction

Its decisions like this that have companies rushing over there to do business.