Unpaid workers ready to ‘burn down factory’

[geovalin]

Mom Kunthear

More than 150 garment workers at the Tien Tien factory in Kandal province have threatened to burn down their workplace after its Chinese owner disappeared without paying them almost a month ago.

Dip Sopheakdey, a 30-year-old worker, said yesterday that the owner escaped on August 6 for reasons that remain unclear, leaving about $30,000 in unpaid wages.

She said that authorities had not responded to petitions and marches from the workers, causing them to threaten to set the now-abandoned factory alight.

“We will burn the factory down if we don’t get our salaries,” she said.

“We do not have any more money to buy food and pay the rent.”

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[lust]

Perhaps, instead of burning it down, allow the sale of the factory and pay the remaining wages with outstanding balance.