(16 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – 16 September 2024
1. Wide of labor union leader Chhim Sithar sitting with friends and family after her release from prison
2. Wide of Chhim Sithar
3. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Chhim Sithar, Labour Union Leader:
“About our advocacy fighting for union rights at NagaWorld, we will continue holding strike action until we get a solution. That’s the position we have determined since the first strike. Unfortunately, as of today, after nearly three years, our workers have still not gotten justice. Therefore, as long as there’s no justice our struggle continues.”
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ARCHIVE: Phnom Penh, Cambodia – 25 May 2023
4. Wide of prison van bringing Chhim Sithar to court for verdict
5. Various of supporters demonstrating outside court
6. Zoom in on Chhim Sithar in prison van leaving court, raising defiant fist and smiling at supporters
7. End shot of supporters
STORYLINE:
A union leader freed from prison Monday after serving time for her part in a strike against Cambodia’s biggest casino has vowed to continue the labor action until justice is done.
Chhim Sithar was sentenced in May 2023 to two years’ imprisonment for incitement to commit a felony, including time served before her conviction, in connection with the strike against the NagaWorld casino, the longest such labor action in the country’s history.
She had been leading a strike of hundreds of workers that began in December 2021 to protest mass layoffs and alleged union-busting at the casino in the capital, Phnom Penh, and was arrested and charged after a January 2022 demonstration of dismissed employees who were demanding to be rehired.
NagaWorld in late 2021 had fired 373 employees during financial struggles related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking to The Associated Press at her home shortly after her release, Chhim Sithar vowed to continue leading the strike until there was a fair solution.
“That’s the position we have determined since the first strike,” Chhim Sithar said, sitting on the floor surrounded by relatives.
After Chhim Sithar’s arrest, some dismissed workers continued to hold regular protests, appealing for her release and to get their jobs back.
However, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training announced in December 2022 that more than 200 others had accepted compensation under the labor law and dropped their demands.
NagaWorld is owned by a company controlled by the family of late Malaysian billionaire Chen Lip Keong.
The company received its casino license in 1994 and the property is a huge integrated hotel-casino entertainment complex.
AP video shot by Heng Sinith and Ouk Navouth
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