By Editor -May 19, 2024

Letter From Worker 

May I ask for help.

I am a worker from Tha Shu (Myanmar) Glory Fashion garment factory. There is no sufficient dinning space in the factory. I attached a photo. There are 15 cavities in the factory with 70 workers per cavity; total 1,400 workers are working in the factory.

The dinning room is not fit for the workers since then, but it becomes more tidier as they put machines and equipment in the room. Some workers have to eat on the floor and some have to eat in places which they shouldn’t be.

The drinking water is also not purified. It came directly from the well via the pipe lines and it have odors. We are drinking those impurified water. We tried to take water ourselves but the factory doesn’t allow to take inside the factory, so we have go outside to drink.

The line managers and supervisors scold us if we take time a little long to go drink outside. They also scolded for not getting the demanded outputs. They humiliated in public with the rudest words and sometimes the owner even participated.

They asked 40 overbought fabrics per hour which we sew only 25 before the coup and we are assigned unfairly.

They close every door except one since the start of working hour so seamstresses are suffering from the high temperature and there is lack of fans.

The factory located at Shwe Than Lwin Street, Shwe Than Lwin Industrial Zone and owned by a Chinese national. We want the officials to resolve the disputes.