Thursday, May 28, 2015

The fight for rights as an Asian domestic worker...

Suay Ing was nine when she was first employed as a domestic worker, cleaning for a family and sleeping in their laundry room in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai for $10 a month.

The eldest of four children of migrant construction workers from Myanmar, Ing was 14 when she was trafficked to Bangkok by a broker who promised her a job and abandoned her.

Hungry and with no identification papers or money, the unkempt child finally found a noodle shop owner willing to hire her for 3,000 baht ($100) a month in exchange for working 12-hour shifts with three days off a month.

Over the next 14 years, he taught her to manage the shop, but also beat her, docked her pay, and even denied her food.

"Even if my staff did anything wrong, I had to take responsibility for it. He would say, 'How do you want to be punished? Do you want to be slapped? Do you want me to take your salary?'" recalled Ing, now 31. Full story...

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