"Textile factory workers collectively demand that professional fees [not] be cut", 5 November 2022

It is reported that more than a thousand workers at a textile garment factory opened in Yangon's Shwepytha Industrial Zone (3) have collectively demanded that their professional fees be restored.

"2022, November On the 5th of October...the employer cut the professional fees of the workers by almost half, so they asked the [factory] to pay the professional fees in full,'' said STUM.

The factory is a Cotton Textile Garment (Myanmar) garment factory, where more than 1,000 workers (more than 1,000) work, when the salary was paid today on November 5th, the professional fees were cut for 8 days off in October.

''It was not negotiated. A manager or someone in charge is adjusting it. When I went to explain the reason for cutting the money, I went to the dining room, and there were more than a thousand people in front of the dining hall, and it was like a protest...

A collective request by nearly a thousand workers to reissue the cut professional fees

It is also reported that the factory will return it on November 8th.

[Translation via Google Translate]