NagaWorld Workers Strike in Cambodia Supported by Coca-Cola, Chevron Employees

The saga surrounding a workers’ ten-strike at the NagaWorld gambling casino resort inward Kingdom of Cambodia endure month is far from over. Support for workers jailed after the strike is coming from conglutination employees at Coca-Cola, Chevron and more.

A workers’ strike at Cambodia’s NagaWorld that began in December has been, for the to the highest degree part, mundane. The events after the expunge have got been the fill out opposite. Some of the jointure leaders who played a role inward the work stoppage were sent to jail. Even the United Nations (UN) decried the police litigate that followed.

A month after the strike, the fallout is still resonating in Cambodia. It’s also reaching other countries, such as Malaysia. Federal workers at Kingdom of Cambodia Beverage Company, which produces Coca-Cola products, and at plants belonging to transnational fire supplier Chevron make begun to vox their opposition to the treatment.

They, on with others, have got banded together with the NagaWorld employees. They make started to take part in the public protests along with them.

This is a societal disease and it spreads into our scheme and needs to follow treated,” said Yoeun Reth, the join president for workers at Chevron’s plant life inward Phnom Penh.

The protests out of doors NagaWorld continue, with around 2,000 fighting for change. If in that respect was a chance the ten-strike would hold been short-lived, that was removed followers the arrests of the conglutination leaders and workers. The protestors are now goaded to proceed as a final result of the incarcerations, which the UN has asserted could live human rights violations.

Malaysia Workers, Others Show Support

The Labor Law Reform Coalition in Malaya has started to increment its support for Kampuchean workers. The group has sent a alphabetic character to the Cambodian embassy inward an endeavour to phonation its concerns o'er the situation.

That missive never made it, however. The embassy refused to live with it, according to the media outlet Union of Catholic Asian News.

The US embassy inward Cambodia has spoken upwardly as well. It raised concerns over the police force response to those participating inwards a “peaceful expression.” It is attempting to pressure authorities to “hear citizens, not silence them,” adding, “Freedoms of speech, assembly and connection are guaranteed inward the Cambodian constitution.”

NagaWorld Denies Targeting Union Employees During Layoffs

When NagaWorld made staffing and other cuts shoemaker's last year, it did so by targeting trade union employees. That has been the allegation of the protestors since then. However, the resort’s executives refuse the allegations.

The Khmer Times published a statement that the decision to terminate employees came from “internal rules of the company, based on byplay needs, yesteryear productivity, part and commitments, and others, no matter of the unionized or nonunionized staff.”

It added that after the layoffs, the conglutination membership had reduced only if a little, sledding from 47% to 42% of the entire workforce. However, according to the International Trade Union Confederation, 1,100 of the 1,329 employees net ball go away were members of the union.

The fellowship said that unification membership was not a factor inwards the layoffs, as the trade union claims. It also stated that NagaWorld, since it opened inward 1995, has encouraged employees to var. unions every year.