{"id":226,"date":"2015-06-14T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/?p=226"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:10:48","slug":"garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/2015\/06\/14\/garment-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Garment workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"garment workers- 10\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-10.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Textile manufacturing is the biggest industry in Cambodia, employing tens of thousands of workers, predominantly women, in the many factories lining National Road 4 leaving the center of Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-234 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"garment workers- 9\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-9.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Driving home yesterday from a visit to my wife&#8217;s relatives in Kompong Speu at 4:30 pm, I witnessed the crush of traffic as truck after truck crammed with garment workers made their way to work the evening shift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-232 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"garment workers- 7\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-7.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage for these workers is $100 a month for 160 hours (about 62 cents an hour), up from $80, following demonstrations by the garment workers unions last year. The factories are long, metal, windowless structures without air conditioning or adequate ventilation. In addition to the health risks on the job, the workers are in danger during their daily commute as they speed down the national road crammed into open air trucks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-229 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"garment workers- 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/garment-workers-3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textile manufacturing is the biggest industry in Cambodia, employing tens of thousands of workers, predominantly women, in the many factories lining National Road 4 leaving the center of Phnom Penh. &nbsp; Driving home yesterday from a visit to my wife&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/2015\/06\/14\/garment-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/phnom-penh-cambodia-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}