Vietnam
500 Vietnamese textile workers wildcat for pay increase
About 500 workers at a joint-venture garment factory in Ho Chi Minh City have launched a wildcat strike.
Tran Van Truong, a police official in the ward where the Minh Phat Garment Company is located, said officers had been sent to the factory 'in case workers take extreme action, like damaging property.'
'End crackdown on labor activists' in Vietnam, says human rights group
The Vietnamese government should immediately free activists who have been unlawfully imprisoned for peacefully campaigning for workers' rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The 32-page report, "Not Yet a Workers' Paradise: Vietnam's Suppression of the Independent Workers' Movement," documents the Vietnamese government's crackdown on independent trade unions and profiles labor rights activists who have been detained, placed under house arrest, or imprisoned by the Vietnamese government in violation of international law.
Wildcat strike in Vietnam over New Year's bonus
More than 1,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory in central Vietnam have gone on strike last Thursday (22nd January).
Ngo Gia Linh, a trade union official in the central Vietnamese port city of Danang, said workers at the Valley View Vietnam garment company struck Wednesday to demand the company pay them their one-month-wage year-end bonuses before the start of Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year.
Garment workers strike in Vietnam over management abuse
Nearly 4,000 workers at a Taiwanese footwear plant in Vietnam have gone on strike to protest alleged ill-treatment by their bosses.
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Week-long strike in Vietnam factory ends
Wildcat strikers at a South Korean owned firm returned to work yesterday 11 December gaining promises of improved working conditions.
Thanhniennews.com reported that on Thursday last week, around 1,300 workers gathered in front of Doosan Vina Company office in the Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central Quang Ngai Province to demand proper treatment and payment of allowances.
1,300 manufacturing workers wildcat in Vietnam
The wildcat strike of more than 200 workers from a company in the central Quang Ngai Province escalated on Thursday.
Since Thursday morning, around 1,300 South Korean-owned Doosan Vina Company employees, gathered in front of the company office in the Dung Quat Economic Zone to emphasize their demand for proper payment of allowances.
Vietnamese garment workers strike
More than 200 workers of Korean-owned Takyung Vina Company, a garment processor in Ho Chi Minh City’s Hoc Mon District, went on strike Tuesday seeking payment of unpaid salaries.
According to workers, they have not been paid their August salary despite continuing to bear heavy workloads.
The company owes VND500 million (US$30,000) in August salaries but blames late payments from customers for the delay in payment, local authorities said.
More wildcats in Vietnamese garment industry
Some 2,000 workers at two foreign-owned companies have gone on strike, demanding better pay and allowances, company and union officials said Friday.
More than 1,400 workers at Valley View Vietnam, a Taiwanese-owned garment company based in the central city of Danang, have been on strike since Thursday, demanding a monthly petrol allowance of 100,000 dong (6 dollars) and an increase in their daily meal allowance.
14,000 workers strike in Vietnam
Nearly 14,000 workers at a South Korean footwear company in Vietnam have gone on strike to demand higher salaries, blaming the action on rising consumer prices.
The workers of Hwa Seung Vina in southern Dong Nai province stopped work Saturday, asking company leaders to raise their incomes by at least 300,000 dong (18 dollars), said Tuoi Tre daily newspaper.
The management of the company, which produces shoes for export, offered to raise workers' salary by 200,000 dong (12 dollars) but the compromise did not work, the paper said.
6,000 workers wildcat in Vietnam
On 3 July, some 6,000 workers at a Vietnam-based plant owned by textile manufacturer the Chutex Group went on strike over pay levels.
The strike, which took place in the Song Than II Industrial Zone in the southern province of Binh Duong, asked the company's management to raise basic salaries by 15 per cent, and provide workers with accommodation and transportation costs. It was reported that the workers' current salaries are too low to cope with the country’s high inflation.
