HEAVY RICE SACKS FUEL LABOR DISPUTE OWNERS PROTESTING BAN ON FOREIGN WORKERS SHUT DOWN THAI MILLS.(News/National/International) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: July 12, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Jiraporn Wongpaithoon Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand -- At rice mills around Thailand, poorly paid laborers must lift hundreds of 220-pound sacks each day - but it's the mill owners who are complaining and causing a work stoppage.

Millers protesting a government ban on foreign workers shut down operations in one of the biggest labor disputes since the Asian economic crisis started choking Thailand a year ago.

Thailand is the world's No. ...

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