Cambodian Garment Migrant Workers: Precarity and Protest
On March 9, 2024, approximately 600 Cambodian rural migrant workers from the Chinese-owned Y&W Garment Company marched to the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. They submitted a petition demanding unpaid wages and benefits after the company’s owner abruptly declared bankruptcy, leaving them without their final month’s salary. Later that afternoon, the ministry issued a statement urging workers, legal representatives, local unions...