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Article

21 May 2014

Author:
Marta Kasztelan & Clothilde Le Coz, Global Post

For Chevron, $6 a day is apparently too much pay for Cambodian workers

…[O]ver 200 workers at Chevron’s Caltex gas stations across this capital city ground the firm’s business to a halt, demanding their salaries be increased from $110 to $160 a month. The strike comes just a few weeks after the company upped the monthly wages...by $10 to $20…The increase, according to a Chevron statement, makes its current remuneration “competitive and market based.”…[Workers say] the increase is too little. [A worker] claims his salary is not sufficient to get by…Caltex representatives met with the union on May 13 and 16. However, the negotiations yielded no concrete results…Another attempt took place on May 20…But neither the union nor the company were able to reach a consensus on all of the workers’ demands.…In an email, Chevron Cambodia stated it “has expressed its willingness to further review employees’ salaries” and is currently “reviewing options to resolve this issue.”…

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