Prices Leave Garment Sector in a Pinch: ILO
Cambodia Daily | 31 August 2016
Cambodia’s garment sector, although still expanding, will remain in a
precarious position unless global brands significantly raise the prices
they pay to manufacturers, or the sector sees a sharp increase in
productivity, the International Labor Organization (ILO) warned in a
report released yesterday.
With both possibilities improbable in
the short term, factory owners are likely to struggle with continued
increases in wages, the ILO said in its latest “Cambodian Garment and
Footwear Sector Bulletin.”
I will reveal the Vietnamese trick in the garment industry.
ReplyDeleteThe Vietnamese have their own garment factories. They let the Vietnamese workers to try out, get trained in the foreign-owned garment factories. Then just before Tet new year, they would offer the talented and proven workers higher salaries to join them.
As the result, every Tet new year, thousands and thousands of garment workers quit their jobs and joined the Vietnamese own garment factories. And this caused a huge disruption to other garment factories. And as the consequence, the other foreign-owned factories often have to offer bonus to the returning workers to come back and stay.
That's true capitalism. Good workers are rewarded more, and work harder to prove themselves. Vietnamese garment workers change jobs often between factories to gain more skills, then they got paid even more.
Cambodia could copy the same system, but no. Mr. Hun Sen would love to have more garment factories, more tax. But we all know that Sam Rainsy will not allow that to happen. Mr. Hun Sen must share power or nothing will be allowed to progressed. Currently, this is the only power Sam Rainsy has left to deal with Mr. Hun Sen, "Share power or you will have no wealth."
The poor garment workers will continue to suffer. They must eek out little salary in the oppressive garment factories. They could not quit their jobs and the bosses know it. The bosses can continue to oppress, abuse the workers until there are alternative factories for the workers to leave for.
Why don't the oversea Cambodians try to pool the resource then open your own garment factories in Cambodia. You will see Sam Rainsy says, "No, do not open any factory until I come to power."
Mr. Hun Sen will say, "Welcome, welcome, come home and built Cambodia." But unfortunately, he has little influence to the oversea Cambodians.
The poor will continue to suffer because Mr. Hun Sen refuses to share power with Sam Rainsy. Sam Rainsy has all the right to squeeze Mr. Hun Sen and all the blame will go to Mr. Hun Sen.
Sound like I wrongly blame Mr. Hun Sen right? Think about it, if Sam Rainsy does not squeeze Mr. Hun Sen this way, what else can he do. In war, everything goes and the poor will suffer.