By Hsu Latt Phyu - Nov 02, 2023
In the GNS (Bago) Healthcare Co, Ltd factory, which sews surgical gowns, the workers said that they are not being given benefits, being intimidated and discriminated, so that they seek for a resolve.
GNS (Bago) Healthcare Co., Ltd., which located in Awain Ywar Ma Kwin, Awain village group, Bago City, Bago Province, is owned by a Chinese national and it is known that there is no labor union in the workplace.
They are working from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm and the working hours are often changed. They said that the workers are having a hard time because the all supers, who are the supervisors, are asking for a higher rate than what the workers can handle, slandering and intimidating upon asking the demands.
They pressurize and ask for an amount that cannot be obtained. After that, the supervisors keep shouting and slandering. It happens every day. If we can't provide the standard, we were told that not to come to work the next day. The Chinese also order to give the name and card number those who can’t provide the demanded standard and those will be fired," said an unsatisfactory worker.
They said that they have to tolerate as they are intimidated to be get paid only 4,800 MMK as a day fee and their complaints against the supers are not accepted in the workplace.
"Even though the prestigious are wrong, we have to tolerate as we afraid of job losing. We bow our head to everything they say. We are being pressured by the standard, that we are asked unfairly. We are forced to do it alone where two people should be doing it, but they don’t appoint enough man power and they're still reducing the number. The demand is unfair, and there are a lot of people who have left their jobs," said a worker.
He said that even though 5,600 daily allowances are set in the workplace, it is discriminated and all workers are not paid equally.
In the same way, when paying the professional fees for Great A, B, C, all the tailors are not divided equally. Choosing and giving the machine line they want to pay. Only two and three people are selected and given. In choosing people, only whose who are super comfortable are paid the professional fess while the workers who are actually sewing aren’t.
Again, the workers were forced to sign a warning without a valid reason. And while signing it is not processing step by steps, but that they forced them to sign the last warning, and put it on a notice board in a public place to embarrass them, the worker said.
In that garment work, the workers were not entitled to the leave they were entitled to, and if they missed a day, they were discriminated against and being cut daily fee 5,600 MMK and attendance bonus 7,500 MMK.
The workers want to request to allow legal benefits not to force to sign a warning without any clear reasons, to set the A , B, C, D levels based on expertise and to work with transparency and supers and all supers not to use slanders and rude.
