China: 200 Myanmar workers dismissed from garment factory & involuntarily returned home after protesting for better working conditions
摘要
日期: 2024年3月25日
地点: 中国
其他
Not Reported ( 衣服和纺织品 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 200
外劳和移民工人: ( 200 - 缅甸 , 衣服和纺织品 , Women , Documented migrants ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 缅甸 , 衣服和纺织品 , Men , Documented migrants )议题
Dismissal , Freedom of Assembly , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , 药物可及性 , 恐吓和威胁 , Restricted mobility , 任意拘留 , Denial of leave , Contract Substitution , Mandatory overtime回应
Response sought: 否
信息来源: News outlet
“200 Myanmar workers fired from garment jobs in China’s Yunnan province”
Some 200 Myanmar migrant workers were fired from their garment factory jobs in China’s Yunnan province and forced to leave the country after they protested for better pay and working conditions…
More than 1,000 workers from two garment factories in Yunnan’s Yingjiang city demonstrated on March 17…
“We were threatened through interpreters with police arrest if we didn’t stop the protest,” said a worker…
The next day, factory officials demanded that some of the protesters undergo a medical exam, Tin Tin Wai said. The 200 workers who were fired from the Shangcheng and Xinjiahao factories were told they had failed the exam, she said…
They were then immediately driven out of the factory gates to a police station, where they were told to sign a document that said they weren’t fired for protesting, according to one of the workers, Ma Jue…
Protesters had demanded that their usual 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. working schedule be scaled back, that they be paid extra for overtime and that they receive a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan (US$208) with an attendance bonus, she said.
They also asked for reasonable output goals and to have Sundays off, she said…