Threat of ''Mass Strike'' Looms

Specialists from more than 200 piece of clothing processing plants are to make part in modern move on Monday, yet unions yesterday dithered to call it a mass strike, saying they arrange a for later one week from now if their requests aren't met. 

The shots of an alternate mass strike happening expanded the previous evening when an administration panel declared a four-hour later meeting that it might not be raising the base pay, in spite of unions requesting at any rate $160 for every month. 

"In the gathering today, we didn't discuss the measure …  yet just the specialized side – how we can help the LAC [labour Advisory Committee] figure out if it can acknowledge [the unions' demands] or not," Ministry of Labour representative Heng Sour said. 

Delegates of nine union confederations met prior at the Community Legal Education Center after some had told the media that an alternate expansive scale exhibition was unavoidable. 

Pav Sina, president of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said after the gathering that unions had consented to stand firm on their requests, which incorporated, besides everything else, a pay expansion and the arrival of 23 unionists and specialists detained since brutal crackdowns a month ago. 

"Our parts from in the vicinity of 200 production lines over the nation will assemble at their plants to request the administration discharge the 23 specialists and six different focuses on Monday, one prior day their Appeal Court safeguard demand," Sina said. "In the event that the court does not permit the 23 specialists to go free, we will publish a second mass strike." 

Different focuses the unions might continue pushing for incorporated the arraignment of security powers who lethally shot or harmed laborers on January 3, the lifting of a quickly upheld boycott on open social events and a finish to lawful activity against unions, Sina included. 

A mass strike started in late December over the base month to month piece of clothing pay, which the administration initially consented to lift to $95, incorporating a $5 health reward, and after that to $100. 

The strike turned lethal on January 3 when security powers opened fire on strikers in crashes that left four dead and handfuls on both sides harmed. 

Moeun Tola, leader of the labour program at CLEC, said it was not precisely clear what unions anticipated Monday. 

"They're set to do something on the tenth. At the same time they don't determine what," he said, adding that it identified with a day of worldwide movement calling for the arrival of the 23, organised by Industriall Global Union, UNI Global Union and the International Trade Union Confederation. 

"I'm not certain [about the amount of specialists involved], yet it will include 200 production lines. They will tell us later. Possibly some opportunity on Sund