About 2,000 garment workers that make clothes for Swedish clothing brand H&M blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district for two hours Wednesday, issuing a series of demands to increase their wages and improve working conditions.

The mostly women laborers working for the M&V International Manufacturing Limited factory swarmed onto the road at 8 a.m. and finished the protest shortly after 9:30 a.m., when factory and Ministry of Labor representatives agreed to negotiate with 10 of the protesters inside the factory

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Source: (The Cambodia Daily – June 20, 2013)