Thai workers march from Rayong to Bangkok to demand fair treatment

Some 2,000 workers are travelling from Rayong to Bangkok on foot to demand fair treatment from their employers.

“We will march to the Labour Ministry for a serious round of negotiation,” Maxxis International (Thailand) labour union’s chairman Chairat Bussara said yesterday. The workers started the march on February 1.

According to Chairat, Maxxis had made a profit of Bt1.56 billion in 2009, yet it was cutting down workers’ welfare. On November 25, it stopped giving its 2,500 workers any shifts on the pretext that its machines were out of order. However, the workers soon discovered that their employer had hired alien and sub-contracted workers instead.

The Nation