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Union claims Cambodians ‘working to death'

19/08/2014

Workers union IndustriALL has claimed that in a single week in July, 200 Cambodians were admitted to hospital after passing out at work in garment factories.

More alarmingly, it adds that garment workers are dying at work.

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