By Hsu Latt Phyu - Mar 24, 2024
Workers from Chinese national owned MYANMAR SYNERGY GARMENT factory which located at Depayin Wun Htauk U Myae Street, Industrial Zone 2, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon Region said that they are being asked for nearly 800 fabrics in 10 working hours and having difficulties to achieve that.
The factory is manufacturing Sinsay and NEWYORK brand fabrics and the workers are assigned 80 pants and 50 to 60 shirts per hour in 10 working hours including 2 hours of overtime. The fabrics outputs are unfairly asked and the supervisors are verbally abusing the workers to finish those.’
The normal working hours are from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm and the daily wage is 4,800 kyats and workers get paid 1,000 kyats allowance, 1,200 kyats per hour for overtime and 15,000 kyats attendance bonus.
The factory does not have interpreters and the foreigners are directly managing the workers and they are also called overtime on public holidays without having a right to refuse and there are also other violations such as not allowing the workers to take legal leaves.
“It get worse after the coup. Although there is a WCC team, they can’t address the disputes and our difficulties. They asked impossible outputs and supers verbally abuse for not finishing. We want to rest on Sundays but overtime is called without asking our consents. The professional fees and attendance bonus are also cut for taking a leave which makes us suffer. The supers even physically assault us before,” said a worker who don’t want to be named.
The workers also said that the supervisors confiscate their phones, oppress them and force them to lie when the inspecting teams come.
There are around 1,000 workers working in the factory but neither trade union nor work place coordination committee is formed to address the workplace disputes.
The workers said that they want to request that the foreigners not to directly manage them, to hire interpreters, to call overtime only with their consents, not to cut professional fees and attendance bonus for taking legal leaves and to ask only the possible output from them.
