Talks fail as Rangoon strikers push on

14 February 2012

Employers have refused to budge on demands made by workers 

at a shoe factory in Rangoon whose strike, now in its second week,

has once again drawn attention to poor labour conditions in Burma.

Officials from the government’s labour department yesterday

attempted to mediate between strikers and the owners of the 

Taiyi shoe factory. Around 2,000 people have halted work in protest 

at low salaries and wages deducted during the five-day Chinese 

New Year holiday in January, which employees say they were

forced to take against their will.

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No Breakthrough in Strike Talks

13 February 2012

Workers at the Chinese-owned Tai Yi Slipper factory in Rangoon's 

Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone (3) said that they have yet to reach

an agreement with their employers, despite talks on Monday that

included senior government labor officials.

Today's talks, which come a week after workers at the Tai Yi factory

went on strike to demand wages deducted for an unofficial holiday to

mark the Chinese New Year, were the first since the labor unrest began.

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