'Garment industry workers are asking for health care and increased wages', 26 June 2023

At the Zuyuan Edenweiss Sanwa Co. Ltd factory, which employs more than 270 workers, workers have requested health care and for management to allow workers to enjoy leave and to increase daily wages...a Chinese-owned factory opened in Yangon Region Hlaingtharyar Industrial Zone 2, Dipa Yinwantauk Oo Kha Road... there is no trade union in the workplace.

Workers in the workplace are not entitled to leave and if they take a day off, they will be fined [...]. The workers said that they would like a solution because they do not get the benefits of casual leave, seniority leave, medical leave, etc.

Workers said that since there are no medical rooms and medicines in the workplace, if something happens in the workplace, workers must buy treatment at their own expense, and there are a lack of toilets and inadequate roofs.

Finally, due to the current rise in commodity prices, workers who are working full-time do not have enough wages and expenses, so they would like to request an increase in the wage to change it to 5,600 Kyats instead of the current 4,800 Kyats.

The factory was temporarily closed (from May 2020 to April 2021), and previously designated workers were paid 7,400 Kyats per year of service, rising to 12,200 Kyats for 2 years, 20,700 Kyats for 3 years and 31, 300 Kyats for 4 years. Dissatisfied workers say that 44,600 Kyats for 5 years has been unilaterally dropped on the pretext of the Covid-19 period, and the overtime bonus of 5,000 Kyats has also been dropped, resulting in a decrease in income.

At present, it has been more than a year since the factory reopened [...] and if orders are not met, supervisors are putting pressure on workers and cutting money.

[Translation via Google Translate]