Activist calls on firms to help out
The government should ask factories and companies not affected by the flooding to send volunteers to help beef up flood barriers around industrial parks at risk to prevent further job losses, well-known labour activist Vilaiwan Sae Tia said yesterday.
Vilaiwan said it was difficult for labour unions to be effective without government support to help save the remaining industrial estates facing floods. She said many factories and companies would be enthusiastic to take such a lead from the government.
Red-shirt leader and president of the Mirror Foundation, Sombat Boon-ngam-anong, urged companies already engaged in corporate social responsibility activities to provide volunteers to help out at the foundation’s ad-hoc office at Don Mueang Airport.
Sombat said a great impact would be felt if a number of corporations sent just two or three staff to help out in the next two weeks, adding that many of the volunteers who had joined on their own initiative were now exhausted.
“I don’t understand why they [the government] don’t seem to get it,” Sombat said.