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Article

8 Jan 2015

Author:
Mom Kunthear, Phnom Penh Post

Ire raised over Kotop employees’ dismissal

Unionists reacted angrily…to the firings of more than 50 workers at a Phnom Penh garment factory who were let go in the wake of a 15-day strike. Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president Pav Sina said he would issue letters to the government and international brands that buy from Por Sen Chey district’s Cambo Kotop factory, including Gap Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc…Dismissals came after the employees, who walked off the job on December 15 in protest of management’s termination of five CUMW representatives, returned to work on December 31. The firings occurred on January 2 and 3…The corporate social responsibility manager at the factory, who would only identify himself as Kwak, said the CUMW reps whose reinstatement strikers demanded were let go last month because they had disrupted operations in the factory…