By Yoon Satt - Mar 21, 2024

The co-president of News Light Federation, Myanmar (NLF-Myanmar) trade union federation said that around 200 Myanmar workers who collectively demanded at Industrial Zone (4), Yin Jang, Yunan, China had come back home.

Around 200 workers who can be assumed as workers leaders had come back as the SHANGCHENG garment factory called the police and intimidated them instead of agreeing the five facts the workers asked for.

Workers said that they are paid poorly, force exceeding 12 hours, not provided clean toilet and toilet water, not given enough food, asked excessive fabric outputs and not given the overtime fees for not finishing the outputs and cut their salary by accusing that they break the rules in SHANGCHENG Garment which hires Myanmar workers the most.

The workers asked for 5 points which are to pay for the overtime, to pay basic salary of 1,600 yuan, not to cut 300 yuan for transportation, to give off day on Sunday and to provide food.

More than 900 workers collectively demanded on March 17 inside the factory and the factory only agrees to reduce the transportation cut by 100 yuan but denied for the others. And the factory called the police to intimidate the workers.

SHANGCHENG Garment is a factory owned by a Chinese national and more than 1,000 Myanmar workers are manufacturing NANIIREN, FS 09 brands fabrics.