WEB NEWS - Cambodian garment workers demand minimum wage
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In this edition: Cambodian garment workers demanding a higher minimum wage; anti-Islam ads spark outrage in the US; and waltzing on the walls of a Californian building.
CAMBODIAN GARMENT WORKERS DEMAND HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE
After staging a nationwide strike back in December 2013 that prompted the government to increase their minimum wage from 80 to 100 dollars, Cambodian garment workers are back on the streets. As we can see from this footage filmed in Phnom Penh last Wednesday, hundreds participated in protests in the capital calling for better working conditions and a salary hike. They are demanding a monthly minimum wage of 177 US dollars.
And the campaign is being relayed on social networks with web users the world over speaking out for the Cambodian textile workers. They have been posting under and re-tweeting the #WeNeed177 hashtag, pledging support and urging the government to listen. Some are also using these keywords to reach out directly to the clothing brands that buy and sub-contract supply from Cambodia to negotiate a higher wage for workers with suppliers.
And this outpouring of solidarity for garment workers in Cambodia has spread from the web to the streets. Support rallies have been organized across the globe in recent days. In Toronto, Canada for example, in Geneva, Switzerland and in Melbourne, Australia, where demonstrators are calling for the factory workers making the clothes everyone buys in high street stores to be given a fairer wage and be allowed to work in respectable conditions.
USA: ANTI-ISLAM ADS SPARK OUTRAGE
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CAMBODIAN GARMENT WORKERS DEMAND HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE
After staging a nationwide strike back in December 2013 that prompted the government to increase their minimum wage from 80 to 100 dollars, Cambodian garment workers are back on the streets. As we can see from this footage filmed in Phnom Penh last Wednesday, hundreds participated in protests in the capital calling for better working conditions and a salary hike. They are demanding a monthly minimum wage of 177 US dollars.
And the campaign is being relayed on social networks with web users the world over speaking out for the Cambodian textile workers. They have been posting under and re-tweeting the #WeNeed177 hashtag, pledging support and urging the government to listen. Some are also using these keywords to reach out directly to the clothing brands that buy and sub-contract supply from Cambodia to negotiate a higher wage for workers with suppliers.
And this outpouring of solidarity for garment workers in Cambodia has spread from the web to the streets. Support rallies have been organized across the globe in recent days. In Toronto, Canada for example, in Geneva, Switzerland and in Melbourne, Australia, where demonstrators are calling for the factory workers making the clothes everyone buys in high street stores to be given a fairer wage and be allowed to work in respectable conditions.
USA: ANTI-ISLAM ADS SPARK OUTRAGE
“End all aid to Islamic countries”, “Islamic Jew-hatred: It`s in the Quran” and “Yesterday's moderate is today's headline” … these are just som... Go on reading on our web site.
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