The Hellish Commute of the Women Who Make Your Clothes

GMJS-CEO · Post by **GMJS-CEO** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:14 pm

This reminded me of some older stories written about this topic. Here’s one https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw3 ... et-to-work

GMJS-CEO · Post by **GMJS-CEO** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:18 pm

Here’s the accident where a number of ladies lost arms
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/ ... nt-workers

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:30 pm

Clemen wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:22 pm I don't really understand what you are getting at. Maybe I should have said " I have no way of verifying the veracity of his claims", but I thought that " I don't know if this is true" conveyed that. This does not change the fact that over a period of a few weeks, and occasional visits since, I have not seen anyone standing in his company trucks. This in comparison to the photo in the article, and again, what I have seen around Kanpong Speu.

Maybe he actually is great employer, who knows, but generally, in this country, you’d better take claims like ‘licensed drivers’ and ‘no direct payments’ with a shitload of salt. Even if the claims are true they might have no value at all.

For instance, soon all the tuk tuk drivers in the capital will be ‘licensed’. Just used a ‘licensed’ one today. Great guy, zero knowledge about traffic law, but who needs that any way in PP?

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:34 pm

Rough it may be, and everyday I see those trucks with people standing packed in like sardines. The thing is that they are cheap, the passengers pay 10,000 Riel a week or month or whatever, far less than any other transport costs. Unless you can come up with a cheaper or equally costing alternative with as much flexibility there's no point in complaining.

hiway5 · Post by **hiway5** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:56 pm

Clemen wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:22 pm I don't really understand what you are getting at. Maybe I should have said " I have no way of verifying the veracity of his claims", but I thought that " I don't know if this is true" conveyed that. This does not change the fact that over a period of a few weeks, and occasional visits since, I have not seen anyone standing in his company trucks. This in comparison to the photo in the article, and again, what I have seen around Kanpong Speu.

I have never seen anyone standing either. There seems to be plenty of room, they have lots of trucks.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:05 pm

hiway5 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:56 pm I have never seen anyone standing either.

As far as I've ever seen they are always standing. Where would anyone sit? Have you ever tried sitting on the metal floor of a truck? It's painful.

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:43 pm

Clemen wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:22 pm I don't really understand what you are getting at. Maybe I should have said " I have no way of verifying the veracity of his claims", but I thought that " I don't know if this is true" conveyed that. This does not change the fact that over a period of a few weeks, and occasional visits since, I have not seen anyone standing in his company trucks. This in comparison to the photo in the article, and again, what I have seen around Kanpong Speu.

Yeah, I'll back that up. Credit where credit's due. Worlds apart from anywhere else I've seen.
Occasionally you see some standing but no more than on a bus back home. Good truck/busses, good seats, very safe driving and stopping.
It shows it can be done.

hiway5 · Post by **hiway5** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:50 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:05 pm
hiway5 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:56 pm I have never seen anyone standing either.
As far as I've ever seen they are always standing. Where would anyone sit? Have you ever tried sitting on the metal floor of a truck? It's painful.

The trucks in Koh Kong have bench seats running length wise. No one is standing nor sitting on the floor.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:14 pm

Maybe, but the ones I see in the capital don't have seats.

explorer · Post by **explorer** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:30 pm

There are a lot of different factories, and a lot of different trucks.

Where I am most people sit. A small number stand. Some trucks have a row of seats along each side, then a row of seats down the middle, where people can sit back to back facing either side.

Some people travel in trailers behind motorbikes, again sitting on each side, with their legs in the middle.

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