By Editor - Sep 18, 2024
We are from Wonderful Apparel garment factory which locates at Han City Power Street, Myaung Takar Industrial Zone, Mawbe Township. The owner is Chinese national and the factory manufactures COLIN’s, ADVENTURE and TRSLLKIDS brand appeals.
The Chinese national lady force the manager to dismiss the workers she doesn’t favor although workers have employment contract.
The workers are suffering as the manager doesn’t address the problems critically and follows the employment contract but instead following the lady’s orders and dismissing who ever she wants to.
Two QC workers are dismissed saying that some fabric failed in quality. Workers who were dismissed by the Chinese lady without concerns are suffering and it is also labor right violations.
The QC all super who was dismissed was cut 50,000 kyats. The factory dismissed the workers unexpectedly and cut without our knowledges. The manager is involving in cutting the salary by following the Chinese lady’s orders.
Production line with 19 people are asked for 40 fabric per hour which is nearly impossible and a seamstress have to handle 2 or 3 points in the same time. Garments we can manufacture 80 to 90 per hour are asked 100-120. The necessary workforce is not reinforcing but we are verbally abused by the supervisors if we don’t finish the demands.
There are 6 production lines and 3 line supers but the Chinese lady is managing all directly and verbally and physically abuse us. The manager is interpreting the Chinese lady instead of their job as there is no interpreter.
The Chinese lady can also speak Burmese quite well. The finishing all super is handling the QC departments as the vacancy is currently not appointed.
The finishing all super assign us many works whenever the Chinese lady told her something. So, she is like the wing woman of the Chinese lady. Workers from departments with few tasks are transferred to those with more tasks to do. The Chinese lady get worse after the manager and all supers follow her order.
The working hours are from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm and overtime is called from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am. The employer doesn’t provide transportation so workers have to go back with their own plan.
Workers have to work overtime mandatorily because we are treated with malice and discriminated if we don’t. The employer failed to keep their words about transportation in the morning after overtime. Day laborers are hired around 2 months when there are many tasks and dismissed when the tasks are finished.
The employer cut the workers and force to sign warning if the factory failed in order after inspection. The restrooms are unsanitary. The factory takes sub orders from Harmony garment factory from Hlaing Thar Yar. There are no changes in the factory after investigations. We want to get help for the employer’s violations.
The workers’ demands =
1. To ask only possible fabric output
2. The supervisors to not verbally abuse the workers
3. To call mid-night overtime only with the workers consents
4. To transportation for overtime
5. The Chinese lady to not directly manage the workers
6. To not dismiss or cut the workers without any valid reasons
