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Shwe Pyi Thar workers launch hunger strike
Angered that the establishment of a national minimum wage has led to effective pay cuts of about 30 percent, workers from the Han Jen garment factory in Yangon’s Shwe Pyi Thar township have mounted a hunger strike. They are demanding the reinstatement of the allowances and bonus the management abolished when the minimum wage came into force last month…[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Han Jen to respond; it did not do so.]