Myo Thein
Jan 17, 2026
#Letter
Please read this carefully.
This is from Sheng Tai (ST) garment factory located on Min Gyi Maha Min Khung Road, Shwepyitha Industrial Zone (3), Shwepyitha Township. It has been operating for more than nine months.
There were no appointed employer–employee representatives until the Labour Office came to inspect. Only after hearing that an inspection was coming did the factory appoint people it favored as WCC members without informing the workers. Those appointed as “worker representatives” are factory managers, interpreters, and supervisors.
There have been repeated violations of the EC contract, including unilateral dismissals during the nine months since the factory opened.
The factory does not have sufficient toilets for more than 300 workers. For female workers, these three toilets are not enough. Sometimes only two can be used. HR speaks to them harshly over a microphone when workers have to wait because the toilets are occupied.
The Myanmar female Production Manager and HR themselves speak in a rude and abusive manner.
Once work starts in the morning, HR personally shouts over a microphone demanding that a full one-hour production target be completed. On Mondays and Saturdays, gate passes to go outside are not issued.
I want to know whether it is allowed not to issue them like this.
I want to know whether worker representatives can be appointed without being chosen by the workers themselves.
For departments with insufficient workers, instead of providing proper staffing, they only hire daily workers out of concern for long-term obligations. When work volumes decrease, they dismiss them.
There is no clinic or nurse at the factory. Medicines are also not sufficiently available. They only call the workers they themselves selected to answer questions when the Labour Office comes to inspect. The factory manager and a Chinese woman also assign workers to different departments at will.
Workers are recruited with a daily wage of 11,000 kyats, but payment is settled at only 9,500 kyats. At the time of hiring, one position is stated, but at the time of salary payment, the position is changed.
I request that this be resolved.
