By Min Ni Kyaw - Oct 18, 2024
#Letter
We are workers from Nga Pya Daw Kyaung Street, War Ta Yar Industrial Zone, Shwe Pyi Thar Township, Yangon region. The factory owner and managers are Chinese nationals. There are other Chinese nationals in the factory. It has been only a few months our factory started to operate but they are violating labour laws.
The Chinese national factory manager and the QC lady dismiss the workers they don’t like without any credentials. There is no compensations and the dismissed workers are mostly Myanmar nationals.
Some women are dismissed as soon as they got pregnant and the QC lady forcibly asked a female worker if they are pregnant in public. It is embarrassed for Myanmar girls and they were dismissed without any valid reasons the next day without compensation.
They are recruiting mandatory overtimes since August and we are intimidated to be dismissed if we don’t work. We have to sign overtime agreements without our consents and we don’t have break time before overtimes. We can have dinner at 8:30 pm but we had to work nonstop since lunch until then.
We are verbally abused and humiliated in public if we can’t work overtime for health reasons and dismissed on the next day.
We also work overtime on holidays and day offs. We work overtime at least on 2 day offs. Currently, we are working everyday and they are calling overtime on October 19 and 20 as well. The factory office stuffs are forcibly charging us for Thadingyut vernation of superiors. All supers are cut 30,000 kyats, supers are cut 20,000 kyats and sub-ordinates are cut 5,000 – 10,000 kyats mandatorily.
They buy not only gifts for vernation but also jewelries for factory manager and QC lady with the money they charged from us. It is a huge loss for us while we are struggling for our livelihoods in this crisis. We want actions.
(#Information – Workers said that Straightex Co.ltd is co-owned by a Chinese and Myanmar nationals and hires around 800 workers. Information about the factory is not seen in DICA and it is also known that there is no trade unions and workplace coordination committee in the factory.)
