By Min Ni Kyaw - Jun 18, 2025

#Letter

I am a worker at Hope One factory.

The owner is a Japanese national and located in Shwe Lin Pan Industrial Zone Hlaing Tharyar Township. There are about 800 workers.

Now, a Myanmar national sent from Japan has arrived. They are a Burmese, but the way they speaks is extremely harsh and rude. We don’t even know what position they holds or what responsibilities they had.

The factory used to provide snacks to workers in the evening for a decade, but ever since they arrived, it was stopped as they said the snack budget costs around 1,000 lakhs kyats per year.

Also, there’s excessive pressure for overtime from them. The managers do whatever this person says.

They speaks to workers very harshly—not outright insulting, but always with a sharp, cutting tone.

They are not a manager to treat us like that. They treats people they brought into the factory with familiarity, calling them “Ama” and “Nyi Ma,” but speaks coldly to those they doesn’t get along with. Even the managers never used such a tone.

Even the office staff are uncomfortable with how they talks and behaves. Our factory was not that bad on its own but, things have gotten difficult for those working under them ever since they arrived.

They complain sewing workers who sit all day for using the toilet toward the end of the shift.

As for salaries, they are circumventing to raise the daily wage but reducing or cutting previously available benefits under the excuse of giving a raise.

Workers want a proper increase in daily wage. But they only offer to raise the grade bonus instead of raising the daily wage or overtime rates.

We’re being forced to work OT until 7 p.m. without any break time. They say work is until 4 p.m., for Saturdays, but some workers are called overtime. The factory divides day wages into four different levels, and there are about four salary levels being given.

I want the relevant people to know about this situation.

Thank you.