...Myanmar’s workers are now daring to speak out to demand better pay and conditions after a new law gave them the right to strike. Workers...are already testing their new-found power with a string of walkouts...Hundreds of employees from three garment factories at Yangon’s Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zone went on strike last week demanding improved working conditions...“...People are coming to grips with it, understanding new rights and responsibilities,” said Steve Marshall, the ILO’s liaison officer in Myanmar...Earlier this month around 300 workers at a wig factory...went on strike, demanding that their basic salaries be raised...The South Korean employer granted all of the staff requests....Ye Naing Win, of the Committee for Establishing Independent Labour Unions, a local activist group, said there had been more than 20 strikes this year and more were expected. “The protests are occurring because the basic salary they get is so poor and their lives get harder,” he said. “These factories are like prisons.”