Factory workers demand 10 days off at Thingyan
More than 1000 workers at the Ever Sunny Foods factory in Yangon Region’s Hlaing Tharyar township went on strike on March 20 to protest the management’s decision to cut the Myanmar New Year holidays from 10 to five days and to demand for labour rights which they claim to be deprived of. “After the government fixed five days for the New Year holidays, factory officials said they will give us eight holidays. But they told us that we have to work for three days. So, the workers are not happy with the factory officials’ decision,” one of the workers’ leaders, Ko Myo Nyi Nyi, told The Myanmar Times.
