Cambodian Workers Camp Out, Hunger Strike Against Walmart and H&M

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http://www.labornotes.org/2013/02/cambodian-workers-camp-out-hunger-strike-against-walmart-and-hm

UPDATE, March 1: The Kingsland workers have won their demand for back wages, in a settlement worth over $200,000, reports the worker center Community Legal Education Center.

Self-organized garment workers at a Walmart and H&M supplier factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, have been camping in front of their shuttered factory for almost two months to prevent their bosses from taking out the sewing machinery.

Now the workers have escalated to blocking roads, and will launch a hunger strike February 27—all to push Walmart and H&M to pay them the back wages they are owed. Their cause is drawing support from workers at another Walmart subcontractor on the other side of the world.

“We decided to go on hunger strike to show that we not just any workers,” said one of the leaders, Sorn Sothy, 26, who works in the warehousing part of the Cambodian factory. “We are strong, committed, and united.”

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1. Given their prices, I should have guessed H&M as bad as Walmart

Screw both of them