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​ Tsang Yih shoe factory strike 2025

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Tsang Yih shoe factory strike 2025

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A sit-in strike by several thousand workers at the Taiwan-owned Tsang Yih Shoe Factory, an Adidas supplier in Hlaing Tharyar Township, Yangon, demanding a daily wage of 12,000 kyats. Management and the junta labour ministry initially refused; on 21 May the company conceded a package worth 12,000 kyats a day and the strike ended.

Timeline 1 incident

  1. Sit-inTsang Yih Shoe Factory, Hlaing Tharyar Township, Yangon, Myanmar

    Tsang Yih shoe factory workers win a 12,000 kyat daily wage

    ResolvedWon6,200 workers

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