HONG KONG labour groups are seeking meetings with Thai Government officials and Kader directors exactly a year after the toy factory blaze killed 188 Thai workers and injured 300 more.
Workers will press for the public release of reports on the cause of the May 10 fire and ask toy industry giants to adopt and enforce a strict new safety code.
The Association for Industrial Accident Victims, Confederation of Trade Unions, Institute for Industrial Relations, Asia Monitor Resource Centre and other groups met last week to organise meetings and protests on Tuesday.
Spokesman for the centre, Tian Chua, said workers in Thailand and Hong Kong would hold evening vigils in memory of the workers, mostly young women, who died in the blaze.
Hong Kong groups would gather at the Star Ferry in Tsim Sha Tsui, while former workers at the Thai factory planned to hold a religious ceremony at the site of the ruined factory in Nakhon Pathom province.
Workers in the factory were caught in a stampede to escape, becoming trapped by locked doors as the building erupted in flames and collapsed within 30 minutes.
