Cambodia

IIWE finances and supports the strengthening of capacities of the trade union confederation CLC for social dialogue (collective negotiations and dispute resolution) in favor of a sustainable promotion of workers’ rights of workers in precarious labor situations within Multinationals (MNC) operating in Asia and their supply chains (SC) (including domestic companies and informal economy workers). Strengthening of capacities for social dialogue includes strengthening of negotiation capacities (both human and structural), organizational capacities (representativeness, internal participation, and financial management), and institutional capacities (external communication, networking and collaborating with third parties). At national level CLC will collaborate with other trade unions, and civil society organisations, while at regional, continental and international level CLC will collaborate with partner organisations of IIWE, and WSM, with the Clean Clothes Campaign, and with others
trade unions within the International Trade Union Confederation and the ILO. In order to enhance sustainability of results and specific objective, special (crosscutting as well as specific) attention will be paid to gender, environment and long-term financial resources.

• Cambodian Labour Confederation (CLC): CLC is an independent trade union confederation in Cambodia, representing more than 92.000 workers in different sectors of the Cambodian economy: textile and garment industry, tourism, construction, food and services, transportation, manufacturing industries, financial services, agriculture, informal economy. CLC has 8 affiliated federations who are active all over the country. CLC currently is a partner organisation of IIAV/IEOI and used to be a national partner organisation of WSM until 2016, focussing on labour rights, minimum wages and social protection. In the new WSM-program in Asia CLC will be a strategic partner and stakeholder within the Asia Network on the Right to Social Protection. In this respect CLC , by joining the continental synergy activities of WSM, will be able to strengthen its capacity to strive for better workers’ rights, decent wages and social protection in Cambodia. The South Coordinator of WSM who is responsible for the coordination of the WSM- partners in the ASEAN-region can assist CLC in the implementation of the IIAV/IEOI program in Cambodia, particularly when it comes to issues of social protection.
• Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU): C.CAWDU is the garment federation of CLC in Cambodia, organising more than 80.000 workers, mainly women, in the textile and garment industry. The trade union is an active partner of the International Clean Clothes Campaign and is from that perspective a very important ally in the campaigns of WSM, IIAV/IEOI and the Clean Clothes Campaign for better working conditions and higher wages for the Cambodian garment workers. C.CAWDU used to be a national partner organisation of WSM until 2016, focussing on labour rights, minimum wages and social protection.

In the new WSM-program in Asia C.CAWDU will be a strategic partner and stakeholder within the Asia Network on the Right to Social Protection. In this respect C.CAWDU , by joining the continental synergy activities of WSM, will be able to strengthen its capacity to strive for better workers’ rights, decent wages and social protection in Cambodia. More particularly, within the thematic synergy on garment, C.CAWDU will be invited to collaborate with GARTEKS from Indonesia and NGWF from Bangladesh to strengthen their capacity to negotiate legally binding agreements with the international garment brands.