Southeast Asian Clothing Workers Strike On H&M, Zara And Other Clothing Prices Or Rise

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< p > on Friday, the explosion-proof police in Kampuchea a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > PhnomPenh < /a > Phnom Penh shot the workers in the garment industry who were walking on the streets. According to several international media reports, at least 3 deaths and 10 injuries, and 40 others were arrested.

Since the end of 2012, industrial workers such as Bangladesh, Kampuchea, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > Southeast Asian clothing exporting countries < /a > have been on the streets because of persistent fire and bad working conditions and unable to guarantee low wages for life. Now let's take a look at the details.

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< p > this Tuesday, the Cambodia a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > Kampuchea < /a > labor department has just announced that the minimum wage of the clothing industry will be raised to 25% US dollars to US $100, but the industry workers demand that the minimum wage be doubled to 160 US dollars.

The labor department also asked the strike workers to stop the "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp strike "/a" before Thursday, and threatened to take legal action against the workers who took part in the strike, but failed to stop the angry workers, which led to the Friday massacre.

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< p > trade unions in Kampuchea indicated that unless the Ministry of labour and employers agreed to renegotiate the "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "minimum wage standard < /a", the strike would continue.

CoalitionofCambodianApparelWorkers, DemocraticUnion AthThorn, chairman of the DemocraticUnion Democratic Union of Kampuchea clothing workers, told the Wall Street journal that the government and employers must resume labour negotiations within three days, otherwise the protests will continue.

However, HengSour, a spokesman for the Ministry of labour in Kampuchea, said that there would be no new negotiations to maintain the previous standard of $100.

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< p > in view of the tough attitude of the employers and employees, the strike of Kampuchea a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > garment workers < /a > continued to decline, and the CambodiaNationalRescueParty Kampuchea Salvation Party, who asked for re election, joined the protest of the garment workers, which is expected to further aggravate the chaos of the situation.

It can be imagined that both the minimum wage level of workers and the shortage of supply caused by continuous strikes will cause the rise of clothing prices in 2014.

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< p > over the past three years, due to rising costs, global clothing prices have skyrocketed, especially in China, where the demographic dividend is no longer dominant. Most of the clothing brands begin to shift their manufacturing plants to other poorer Southeast Asian countries such as Kampuchea and Bangladesh.

Despite the fact that these countries have made some progress in relying on the "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp "clothing export" /a economy, but at the same time there has been a rise in prices. The clothing industry workers are increasingly dissatisfied with the working environment and treatment. By the end of 2012, "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp "Bangladesh" /a "continued fire and collapsed buildings. The most serious one caused more than 1000 deaths, and nearly 200 people are still missing.

For the improvement of the working environment and the treatment of workers, European and American dress retailers have no choice but to agree with H&MHennes&MauritzAB (HMb.ST) Hayne and Maurice. They are willing to raise their wages and improve their treatment. There are also Wal-MartStoresInc. (NYSE:WMT) WAL-MART and GapInc. (NYESE:GPS), who are willing to set up alliances to take relevant measures, which makes the improvement of garment industry workers' progress become slow.

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In September 2013, in order to strive for a minimum of $104 a month, Bangladesh clothing workers took to the streets of the capital Dhaka to protest. The protest lasted for three days. The workers set fire to some warehouses, while some roads were blocked. Bloomberg Television reported that the police used tear gas to disperse the protesters in P.

The protest resulted in the closure of 400 factories, including the supply factory of Wal-MartStoresInc. (NYSE:WMT) WAL-MART, an American retailer, which also injured at least 70 people, including 6 policemen.

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