Cambodia’s garment factory workers will return to holding strikes next week if the government fails to make a decision on their demands for a doubling of minimum wages and refuses to release 23 people arrested in a recent bloody labor crackdown, a union leader warned Tuesday.

Ath Thon, the president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, effectively set a Feb. 5 deadline to the government for a decision on the union’s call for minimum wages to be raised to U.S. $160 a month.

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