[Translated via Google translate]

...Thousands of workers at the ADK Garment Factory in the Zeyang factory yard, daily wage, social Security, casual leave medical leave They are protesting today (July 7) in the morning to get work permits.

They started protesting at 8:00 AM and demanded "increasing working rights". "Achieving labor rights"; Thousands of workers chanted, "Increase the daily wage."

After the coup d'état, labor rights violations in the ADK factory worsened, with workers working 6 days a week. They have to work from 7 am to 7 pm. A 22-year-old garment worker told Myanmar Now that she had to work overtime on Sunday.

"It was adjusted from the labor office. But the labor office also has many people on their side. Right now, we have a lot of injustice. They do not provide any labor benefits,” he said.

Currently, the employer has been demanding more than 60 pieces of cloth per hour, so he has to fight hard for 30 minutes of meal time and even the right to go to the toilet, he added.

"Now the era has changed. Even asking for 45 pieces per hour, I asked because I couldn't afford it. What we are asking for now is 62 pieces per hour. "Even if we get 45 pieces, we have to die," he said.

4,800 kyats per day due to the difficulty of living during the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. The woman, who is also a final year student at Dagon University, said that she started working at the ADK garment factory with an overtime rate of 1,200 per hour...

Another 21-year-old protest worker who came to work from Baguio said that they are working more than 100 hours of overtime and are demanding to get labor rights. “We have to work more than a hundred hours of overtime a month. The salary was cut a little, It's happening with this cut. reward There are more punishments than rewards," he said.

Nearly 7,000 garment workers work at ADK Garment Factory...

According to the protesters, 20 policemen and soldiers arrived at the ADK garment factory where thousands of workers were protesting at around 11:00am and were talking with the employer.