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Global Perspective: Labour Dispute Fever In East Asia

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Labour Dispute Kampuchea

Core tip: China's labor disputes are being replicated in East Asia, and some factories that compete with China and supply low cost goods are facing employees' downtime.

These employees demand better pay and benefits.


Labor disputes in China are being duplicated in East Asia, and factories that compete with China and supply low cost goods are facing employees' downtime.

These employees demand better pay and benefits.


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Cambodia

Workers are preparing for a three day strike against the minimum wage dispute.

In Vietnam, thousands of workers in a Taiwanese shoe factory recently went on strike to demand a pay rise; a series of violent demonstrations in recent days in Bangladesh resulted from low wages.


These disputes are similar to similar actions in China.

In China, the growing discontent among workers in some areas has triggered.

Labor dispute

And lead to a pay rise.

As a result, foreign factory owners are increasingly moving their production from Southern China and East China to inland China and other developing countries in Asia.


Labor costs in Kampuchea, Vietnam and Laos are still far below those in China.

But despite the fact that the governments of these countries are competing to attract overseas manufacturers, trade unions are trying to protect their members, so the labour action and minimum wage in the region are on the rise.


  

Cambodia

The minimum wage ranks among the lowest in the world. The average clothing workers in the country earn 50 dollars a month plus 6 dollars in living allowance.

The Kampuchea government has proposed a $5 increase, but free trade unions are still willing to strike unless the minimum wage increases to $70.

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