Calling on Seoul to intervene in their dispute with factory management, more than 500 employees of a South Korean-owned garment factory protested at South Korean Embassy. The Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW), the union behind the protest, says the five representatives were dismissed because they were planning to lead a strike at the factory, which employs a total of 2,500 people. With no embassy officials coming out to receive their petition, the workers moved on to the National Assembly, where opposition lawmakers Chan Cheng and Chea Poch met with eight worker representatives. CUMW secretary-general Chheng Chhorn, who led the protest, said the Union could not accept the factory’s decision to dismiss its representatives. Vong Sovann, deputy secretary-general of the Labour Ministry’s Labour Conflict Department, said authorities had asked the factory to reinstate the union representatives but management refused.
