Phnom Penh: President of the Cambodia Development People Life Association, Prum Bunthorn, said that “unions are key players in the field of labor justice” meaning that trade unions have an important role in protecting and promoting workers’ rights to ensure that work is fair, safe, and balanced between employees and employers.

He explained the following points:

1. Protecting workers’ rights, with unions helping to ensure that workers receive rights based on the law, such as:
. Fair wages
. Decent working hours
. Rest and health and safety protection
. Preventing rights violations

2. As a means of negotiation (Collective Bargaining)
Unions represent workers in negotiations with employers to improve working conditions and wages.
This is an important task in the labor justice system to prevent and resolve labor disputes.

3. Demanding law enforcement
. Unions take a role in
. Monitoring
. Identifying problems
. Calls to ensure that state authorities and companies respect international labor laws and standards.

4. Helping to build a balanced labor system
The role of unions is to ensure worker participation, job security, and public policy.
This helps to facilitate a stable and fair labor system.

5. Educating and motivating workers Unions provide training on workers’ rights, obligations, and skills to strengthen their ability to participate in the workplace and protect themselves.

Joining the union movement is a way to gain justice in the workplace