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The episodes of mass fainting in Cambodia's garment factories have made the western news.

Cambodian female workers in Nike, Asics and Puma factories suffer mass faintings
25 June 2017
Sportswear brands review spate of incidents in factories where employees on short-term contracts work 10-hour days in 30C temperatures.
Women working in Cambodian factories supplying some of the world’s best-known sportswear brands are suffering from repeated mass faintings linked to conditions.

Over the past year more than 500 workers in four factories supplying to Nike, Puma, Asics and VF Corporation were hospitalised. The most serious episode, recorded over three days in November, saw 360 workers collapse. The brands confirmed the incidents, part of a pattern of faintings that has dogged the 600,000-strong mostly female garment workforce for years...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... s-fainting

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:57 am The episodes of mass fainting in Cambodia's garment factories have made the western news.

Cambodian female workers in Nike, Asics and Puma factories suffer mass faintings
25 June 2017
Sportswear brands review spate of incidents in factories where employees on short-term contracts work 10-hour days in 30C temperatures.
Women working in Cambodian factories supplying some of the world’s best-known sportswear brands are suffering from repeated mass faintings linked to conditions.

Over the past year more than 500 workers in four factories supplying to Nike, Puma, Asics and VF Corporation were hospitalised. The most serious episode, recorded over three days in November, saw 360 workers collapse. The brands confirmed the incidents, part of a pattern of faintings that has dogged the 600,000-strong mostly female garment workforce for years...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... s-fainting

30-something degree heat, toxic glue fumes, what could go wrong?

I hope you know that this phenomenon has happened by times throughout Asia. It is not only the factory but something else that causes them to faint in protest,

Dragondoug wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:04 am I hope you know that this phenomenon has happened by times throughout Asia. It is not only the factory but something else that causes them to faint in protest,

Medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew, who has studied mass faintings, compares episodes in Cambodia to similar outbreaks in 19th century Britain when people worked long hours in unsafe conditions. It was, he said, a form of “subconscious political resistance”. “The reason for these outbreaks is not so much physical but psychological, in the form of mass psychogenic illness” said Bartholomew.

“Providing some workers with better nutrition is all well and good, but there needs to be sweeping reforms in the areas of long hours, stressful conditions and poor wages,” he said.

Faintings up 39 percent over six-month period
Wed, 12 July 2017
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) said yesterday that incidents of garment workers fainting on the factory floor had increased by 39 percent over the first six months of the year when compared to the same period last year.

The NSSF posted the findings online but did not divulge the exact number of incidents for the first six months, saying only that there was an increase of 117 workers. The report attributed half of these faintings to psychological problems, referring to instances where workers faint upon seeing a colleague collapse, followed by health reasons and inhaling noxious substances.

A 2016 report from the social security body had reported 1,160 faintings that year, down 40 percent from 2015’s figure of 1,806 incidents. NSSF spokesman Cheav Bunrith yesterday declined to answer questions related to the report over the phone.

However, Cambodian Labour Confederation President Ath Thorn said that despite efforts by the government to improve working conditions, incidents of fainting continued to persist.
He said many factories were not up to international standards and that the government had failed to shut down factories or get them to improve their infrastructure...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/f ... nth-period

Always other views.... My sister in law fainted in her Chinese owned factory 2 days ago. She came home for an extended 2 hour lunch break and then went back to work even though the boss told her to take a couple days off.
She loves her job in the factory and so do my other 2 sister in laws. All 3 at different factories.


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lostjeremy wrote:Always other views.... My sister in law fainted in her Chinese owned factory 2 days ago. She came home for an extended 2 hour lunch break and then went back to work even though the boss told her to take a couple days off.
She loves her job in the factory and so do my other 2 sister in laws. All 3 at different factories.


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Was your sister-in-law's fainting part of a mass fainting? or did she faint alone due to exhaustion or something else?

Not the one in this story but she said there was 6 of them.

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