လိႈင္သာယာစက္မႈဇုန္အတြင္း အလုပ္သမားမ်ား လုပ္ခလစာႏွင့္ အလုပ္သမားအခြင့္အေရး တုိးျမႇင့္ရရွိေရးတုိ႔အတြက္ ယခုႏွစ္အတြင္း တတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ဆႏၵျပေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။
ယေန႔ လိႈင္သာယာ စက္မႈဇုန္ (၃) ရွိ Taiyi ဖိနပ္ခ်ဳပ္စက္႐ံုႏွင့္ ျမဖက္ရွင္ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္စက္႐ံုတို႔မွ လုပ္သား (၂,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ လုပ္ခတိုးျမႇင့္ရရွိေရး ဒုတိယေန႔အျဖစ္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၿပီး ကုန္သည္စက္မႈအသင္းခ်ဳပ္မွ အလုပ္သမားႏွင့္ အလုပ္ရွင္အၾကား ယေန႔ လာေရာက္ညႇိႏႈိင္းေပးခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း ႐ိုက္တာသတင္းဌာန အဆုိအရ သိရသည္။
ယမန္ေန႔မွစၿပီး အဆိုပါစက္႐ုံ (၂) ႐ုံမွ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားက လုပ္ခလစာ တုိးျမႇင့္ရရွိေရး ဆႏၵျပမႈ စတင္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
“စစ္ကားအစီး (၃၀) ေက်ာ္ရွိတယ္။ လမ္းေတြ ပိတ္ထားတယ္။ အေသးစိတ္ ဘာေတြ ျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆိုတာ မသိရေသးဘူး။ က်ေနာ္တို႔သြားေတာ့ ညေန (၄) နာရီမွာ အနီးအနားက ေျပာတာ ၿပီးသြားၿပီလို႔ေတာ့ ေျပာတယ္။ လမ္းေတြ မဖြင့္ေသးဘူး” ဟု ယေန႔ သြားေရာက္ၾကည့္႐ႈခဲ့သူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
လႈိင္သာယာ စက္မႈဇုန္ (၂) ရွိ ပုစြန္အေအးခန္းစက္႐ံုတခုတြင္ အလုပ္သမား (၁၀၀) ခန္႔က ယခုလ (၇) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ သကဲ့သုိ႔ စက္မႈဇုန္ (၃) ရွိ Weng Hong Hung အထည္ခ်ဳပ္ စက္႐ုံတြင္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလက အလုပ္သမားမ်ား လုပ္အားခ တိုးျမႇင့္ေတာင္းဆိုမႈ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည္။
လိႈင္သာယာစက္မႈဇုန္တြင္ စားေသာက္ကုန္ထုတ္လုပ္ငန္း၊ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္၊ အိမ္သံုးကုန္မ်ား ထုတ္လုပ္သည့္ စက္႐ံုအမ်ားအျပား ရွိေနၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအႏွံ႔အျပားမွ အလုပ္သမားမ်ား အေျခခ် လုပ္ကိုင္ေနၾကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
Authorities Threaten Violence at Rangoon Strike
Around 2000 textile factory workers in Rangoon started striking on Monday evening, demanding a pay increase and reduced working hours.
Eye-witnesses said the situation is still tense with more than 30 riot police trucks and several fire engines stationed inside the factory zone.
The strike started in the Mya Fashion garment factory in No. 3 Factory Zone of Rangoon's Hlaing Tharyar Township. The workers are demanding an increase in salary of 10,000 kyat (US$ 10), a reduction of working hours and the provision of a clean space for meals. Workers from nearby factories have reportedly joined the strike.
Blocked by riot police trucks, fire engines and police custody vans, striking workers have been prevented from leaving the factory zone and no one has been allowed to enter, sources in Rangoon said.
According to the latest reports, members of Union Solidarity and Development Association, a junta-backed organization have also arrived at the scene, and the strike continues. The workers have been warned to disperse peacefully or face a violent crackdown.
The workers have to work from 7 am to 11 pm daily. In December, nearly 1,000 textile workers in Hlaing Tharyar staged a demonstration. Government officials were involved in negotiations with the workers over their demands, though it remains unclear as to how the issue was resolved.
The monthly income of most factory workers in Burma ranges from 20,000 kyat [$20] to 40,000 kyat [$40], forcing many to work overtime. Many factory owners employ temporary workers who have no legal recourse if they are fired without compensation, according to former factory workers in Rangoon.
More than 80 percent of factory workers in Rangoon work on a day-to-day basis. Most are young women between 15 and 27 years of age who come from the countryside in search of a better living.
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