Published: 18 Aug 2014 - 09:58 pm | Last Updated: 21 Jan 2022 - 05:37 pm
A woman prepares food at a building where garment workers live, in a suburb of Phnom Penh. Labour leaders behind the biggest strikes in Cambodia’s $5bn garment industry knew last year they had a strong case for higher wages: they had already compared notes with activists in neighbouring countries. The result was a 25 percent increase in the minimum pay for an estimated 600,000 garment workers, to $100 a month, the biggest jump in around 15 years. Now, they’re asking for more.
