Union leader attacked with brass knuckles and cleaver

A union representative led a 1,000-strong protest at a garment factory in the capital’s Russey Keo district yesterday, alleging the company hired a gangster to beat him up on Sunday – a claim the manager has denied. Chhim Sam On, a union leader with the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union at the Xing Chang Xing garment factory, told the Post that a man attacked him with brass knuckles and a cleaver as he walked alone near the factory. …

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