Maverick Strike…
This second day of a strike in the garment sector, proclaimed by just a couple of unions, to push for the $160 salary and the release of the 21 people who were jailed during the violent crackdown by the army of early January, seems finding it difficult to gain momentum as the workers are being intimidated and are afraid of losing their salary ahead of Khmer New Year.
A few individual factories however, like the E-Z International Garment Factory Co., Ltd., were confronted with walkouts for motives specific to the factory and not directly related with the guidelines of the general strike.
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