Workers from Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory protest for higher wages in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district Wednesday. (Lauren Crothers/ The Cambodia Daily)
There were major traffic delays along Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Boulevard in Pur Senchey district Wednesday after about 200 garment workers from the Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory formed a gated roadblock and protested for higher wages.
A line of halted container trucks stretched for hundreds of meters in either direction from the protest site from 8 a.m., when the roadblock was set up, until about 2:30 p.m., when it was disassembled because of rain.
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