Report From Cambodia's Garment Factories  Monday, 08 March 2010
09:28 By Anne Elizabeth Moore, t r u t h o u t | Report | name.
Report From Cambodia Garment workers returning after a lunch
break. (Photo: Anne Elizabeth Moore / t r u t h o u t)  Meet the
international working class - the faceless laborers that likely
had a hand in stitching together your mid-range jeans, your
jaunty parka or your favorite silky smooth T-shirt: They are
super giggly and sharing snacks in the back of a converted
military pickup truck over their lunch break.  In fact, they're
downright cute as buttons, and make about that, too. Cambodia
offers a national monthly minimum wage for garment workers of
$50. This is still higher than in some countries, but Cambodia's
economic boom means that prices and wages in almost all other
sectors have risen rapidly in recent years. In 2009, the
Cambodian Labour Union Federation and the National Institute of
Statistics determined that the minimum wage to support the
conditions factory workers liv