Workforce Abuse Jeopardizes US Trade Status: Union

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Date of publication: November 26, 2009

Source: Voice of America

Author: Taing Sarada

If the government continues to ignore labor violations and fails to address working conditions, it risks its special trade access to lucrative US markets, a leading labor leader said in Washington last week.

Marking the 10-year anniversary of a preferential Cambodia-US trade agreement in Washington, Art Thorn, president of the Cambodian Labor Confederation, said unfair practices and poor working conditions will continue without the intervention of the international community...

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