Thailand's Troubled Border - West, border with Burma

Migrant workers that are working in one of the many cheap labor factories which are located along the border with Burma, on a day of strike because of delayed wages. .Around Mae Sot there are many textile factories, the majority owned by foreign companies, where legal and illegal migrant workers work long hours for very low salaries, or often no salary at all as their bosses often take advantage of their weak position to cut off months of pay.

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Migrant workers that are working in one of the many cheap labor factories which are located along the border with Burma, on a day of strike because of delayed wages. .Around Mae Sot there are many textile factories, the majority owned by foreign companies, where legal and illegal migrant workers work long hours for very low salaries, or often no salary at all as their bosses often take advantage of their weak position to cut off months of pay.