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Southeast Asia'S Labor Clothing Industry Is Organizing Big "Series" Collective Demands For Higher Wages.

2014/8/19 10:30:00 27

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recent news, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp >" Southeast Asia labor organization < /a > mutual "series", is causing the region to set up a new wave of labor movement demanding further salary increase and improvement of working conditions.

"I see the leaders of ILO carry out more and stronger cooperation through different forms."

Peter van Rooij, head of the Jakarta International Labour Organization (ILO), said that with the integration of ASEAN economies, the link could be further strengthened.

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according to Reuters, last year, labour leaders who plotted Kampuchea's "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp > the clothing industry "/a" the largest strike knew that they had every reason to ask for a raise in wages because they had compared with the labor conditions of the neighbouring countries' labour activists.

In the end, they get the biggest salary increase in the past 15 years, and the lowest income of the 600 thousand garment workers has increased by 25% to 100 dollars (about 615 yuan) a month. P

Now, they are asking for more.

< < a href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp > salary > /a > and negotiation of working conditions are usually within a country, and now the ILO's new strategy is to unite the neighbouring labor activists to exert pressure on enterprises and governments in a larger scope.

for multinational companies that have pferred production to low-cost manufacturing centers in Southeast Asia, this may mean less room for wage bargaining, and also a squeeze on profits, or even a rise in prices from shoes, clothing to automobiles and electrical appliances.

In recent months, Nike has put pressure on thousands of workers supplying factories in Indonesia and Kampuchea, demanding higher pay and better working conditions. P

In May last year, about 4000 workers in the Kampuchea Sabrina clothing company, who worked for Nike, went on strike to raise pay to keep up with the increase in traffic, rent and medical insurance premiums.

In P April 2013, the garment factory of the Renna building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1000 people.

After the incident, the safety of the labor environment has been increasingly emphasized by the Asian labor organization, especially in the clothing industry.

Trade unions use the current shortage of skilled workers to organize more strikes to put pressure on enterprises.

according to the data from the Kampuchea Garment Manufacturers Association (GMAC), garment workers launched 147 strikes last year, compared with 30 times in 2011.

Last year, international brands, including H&M, Gap, Puma (Puma) and WAL-MART department store, were hit by the strike of local clothing workers.

Ed Van Tor Annie Adviento, director of the Southeast Asian office of the International Labour Organization, P, said that after the disaster in Bangladesh's garment factories, local unions began to contact international labor representatives. With their help, more than 150 clothing brands were ordered to sign the fire and building safety agreement, which is responsible for the security holes in the local clothing factories. "IndustriALL"

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"P" represents IndustriALL of 50 million workers in 140 countries. It will arrange 2~3 meetings every month, bringing together Asian labor activists, but hardly before last year.

"the ability of trade unions to share information is improved."

Ed Van Tor said, "we have had a lot of communication this year and found that it is very effective. We plan to continue to do so next year."

She added that Kampuchea and Bangladesh have been attracted by global trade unions.

Mani Mony, chairman of the Kampuchea Phnom Penh Free Trade Association, said: "we communicate with each other and give this international organization the responsibility to wage a lobbying campaign." (Chea Mony)

Iqbal, director of the Indonesia trade union federation, said that he had been invited to Malaysia, Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos to share experiences with other trade union activists.

"Our motto is very clear -- say" no "to low wages.

We are spreading this principle in Southeast Asian countries.

He said the meetings arranged by IndustriALL could form seminars of about 50 people, or invite labour activists from several countries to gather in the hotels of a country's capital to compare minimum salaries, discuss social security and other labour related issues.

Cyna, chairman of the P, said that during the negotiations with GMAC and the Kampuchea government last year, the trade unions cited other Asian countries, such as Thailand.

Last year, Thailand issued a national minimum wage of 300 baht (57.98 yuan) per day.

However, when GMAC agreed to raise the minimum monthly salary to $160 by 2018, the union wanted to raise to $177 and threatened more strikes.

In the past two years, the minimum monthly salary of Jakarta, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, has risen by about 60%, to 2 million 400 thousand rupiah (about 1262.16 yuan) in the past two years, under the intensive lobbying of labour activists.

despite the rising pay, labour activists are confident that they will not face the risk of being abandoned by the market.

Budiman Budiman, President of PT McKinsey, Indonesia, said that global enterprises recognized the "market opportunity" in Asia and are expanding the consumer group here. (Arief)

"there are companies threatening to move out of Indonesia, but I think it's just a hollow threat."

Wasidin, a Indonesian Muslim Workers Brotherhood official, said that the reality is that almost no company closes, but more companies want to grow here.