Myanmar Warns Workers to End Strikes

Myanmar’s labor ministry is warning thousands of striking factory workers that unless they return to work, authorities will take action against them. Outside Myanmar's main city, Yangon, industrial zones have become a focus of the country’s fledgling workers' rights movement with thousands walking off their jobs earlier this month. They are demanding a doubling of their wages, pay raises after a year working for the same company and input from labor unions on industrial...

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