"Straightex Co.ltd Factory Forced to Extort Money", 18 October 2024

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the... manager and the...QC woman are firing [whoever] they want. There is absolutely no compensation. There are also many Myanmar workers who have been fired.

Some female workers were fired when they got pregnant. Last month, the...QC woman forcibly asked the female worker if she had a big belly in front of everyone at the factory...The next day, they fired [her] without any fault or compensation.

I was forced to work overtime...If I didn’t, I would be fired...They didn’t give me a break...I had a lunch break at 8:30 [and] I had to work continuously after lunch.

If I couldn’t work overtime because I was sick, I would [be] yell[ed] at...

I also had to work overtime on holidays...These days, I have to work without a day off. I will also be forced to work overtime on October 19 and 20.

During the Thadingyut Saya Kanto Festival, the factory office led the workers to collect money against their will. Twenty thousand for the supers, thirty thousand for the supers, and five thousand or ten thousand for the lower-level employees, as long as they were willing.

They are collecting donations from workers under pressure and then buying gold chains and gold rings for the factory manager and QC lady in addition to the clothing. It is a shame to collect money by force because the workers are currently struggling to make ends meet.

I want action to be taken.

Straightex Co.ltd factory is a Sino-Myanmar joint venture factory and employs around 800 workers, according to the workers...There is no labor union in the factory and no WCC has been formed.

[Translation via Google Translate]