A report covering this year’s first quarter of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) states that the number of strikes at Cambodia’s garment factories during the first three months of 2015 rose nearly 74 per cent from the same period last year. It counted 40 strikes at garment factories in Cambodia between January and March. GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo said that last year, the violent demonstrations just ended and everyone was on the alert. Almost 70 per cent of the strikes involved unions not registered at the factory at which they took place, 8 per cent were carried out by non-union workers and none of the strikes were carried out legally. Report also says that it is a belief that some of the strikes were held to enhance a union’s reputation Kong Athit, VP of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union said that these strikes picked back up, largely because of poor communication between employers and workers. The employer, the union and the government still have very little involvement with each other.
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