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On 3 December, workers at Nun Cho Rune (a knitting and sewing factory in Mae Sot) approached their employer, seeking a 3 day remuneration rate of 320 baht, increasing their daily wage from 60 to 106 baht, a figure still below the minimum wage requirements. This request was followed by 5 workers from the factory seeking assistance from the LPO in dealing with their wage concerns. An appointment was made for a meeting between employees, the employer and an LPO Officer on 27 December. On 20 December, 76 workers were dismissed by their employer and threatened with deportation before eventually being taken to a monastery. As a result, another group of workers visited the LPO in order to better determine their position. At this meeting the workers were told to wait for the meeting and that any moves made on their behalf to seek redress for violations of their labor rights would result in deportation. (Source: HRDU, 2004).
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