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SL strikers go back to work today [Cambodia]
Thousands of striking garment workers are set to return to work…as more than two weeks of demonstrations at one of Asia’s largest garment factories come to a close…6,000 workers [at SL Garment Processing] intended to return to their posts. Striking began…as workers demanded that SL remove military police standing guard inside the factory and cut all ties with [shareholder Meas] Sotha, the man who hired them. The workers’ return to work comes after a meeting between C.CAWDU [Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union], SL management and the Phnom Penh municipal government, during which government officials ordered SL to cut ties with Sotha…[the vice president of C.CAWDU] said. Sotha...said he had not received any information about his alleged dismissal.