Hsu Latt Phyu - Feb 10, 2024
The workers from Tianjin Fashion Milestone Garment factory which locates at No. (392), Seil Kan Thar Street, Shwe Linn Ban Industrial zone, Hlaing Thar Yar Township said that the factory is confiscating their phones without their permission and pressuring for excessive fabric outputs which is not inline with the EC contact.
The factory is a Chinese national owned factory which is manufacturing Sinsay brand warm coats, pants and dress with more than 1,400 workers.
“The factory is composed of 2 sub factories called A and B in the same yard. The total workforce for both A and B is more than 1,400 workers and the difficulties are the same. The factory workers have to work starting at 7:30 to the end of overtime at 20:00 mandatorily. The workers are not allowed to take a break after the normal working hours but continuously forced to work overtime. The factory officials do not change anything although we informed them about our difficulties in the transportation as the ferry buses provided by the factory is not enough. The employer is excessively asking fabric output from the workers. The workers now have to give 50 fabric piece per hour where they used to give 23 fabric piece hour before. Although the workers are working continuously without taking a water break or toilet break, the all supers and supers verbally abuses the workers for not meeting the employer’s demands,” said the workers
The workers are not even allow to enjoy 30 minutes for the lunch break but only 10 minutes and being pressured to get the excessive fabric outputs.
The foreigner Chinese are directly managing the workers and the factory hires many underage workers and assign them the same workloads as the adult workers.
The two Burmese manager who are in charge when the order investigating teams are come stipulated further rules by saying that they can add rules according to the Department of labor guidance which is not included in the employment contract. They didn’t negotiate with the workers for adding the new rules but the employer one sidedly announced those by calling meetings. According to the workers are abusing the labor rights by forcing the workers to sign the warning without known reasons and firing immediately.
“The factory does not have the necessary medicines for the workers and not speaking appropriately to the workers when the workers ask for medicine. The workers do not have sufficient chairs for dinning too. The factory sometimes castigate the workers’ phones by force without the owners’ permission. The factory never took responsible for the workers workplace injury but verbally abuse the workers instead.
The workers’ requests are the employer to follow the EC contract and not to force the workers to sign warning and dismiss by stating unnecessary rules, not to ask fabric output more than a worker can sew, to give full access to the dinning time, the foreigner Chinese not to rule directly and scold the workers and to resolve the problems with insufficient ferries, dining chairs and medicines.
