Beer Girls Strike

"My Country, My Beer" claims Cambrew Ltd, the makers of Angkor beer.  


Cambrew employs hordes of girls to promote its grog at restaurants and nightclubs up-and-down the country.


 Often they have to drink with customers to ensure they keep on buying. So, sometimes you'll see the unedifying site of young, vulnerable, beer girls, from conservative Cambodian homes, knocking back way too much liquor for the enjoyment of relatively wealthy, chauvinistic, packs of Cambodian men. It's not a pretty sight.


In early July, the Cambodian Arbitration Council ruled than these girls should be paid overtime and back pay, for working on Sundays. The company refuses to pay. 


So, some of the girls have gone on a noisy strike. 


The amount in question? $2 for every Sunday worked. 


The Carlsberg Group, owns 50% of Cambrew.


I feel a Leo, coming on.