Workers: we're Happy the Factory's back to business.

However, after talks on Thursday the company won a Bt40-million lifeline from the Thai Textile Institute. Many employees were back at work yesterday morning at the main factory on King Kaew Road. Some who had secured work elsewhere resigned, how¬ever, saying they had lost confi¬dence in the company.Worker Paengsi

Kaewjanthorn, 39, was happy to get her job back and her chil¬dren were "overjoyed" their mother could afford to allow them to continue school. Paengsi realised the future was not certain and will spend carefully and save as much as she can just in case the company closes again.Another worker Yat Wongchan, 41, has children to support and was happy to get back to work. She admitted "deep down" she was worried about the company's health and still feared being suddenly out of job.The reopening made nearby food vendor Dao Phudetch, 40, happy, too. She was shocked about the closing this week because she did not know where else to sell food and was friends with many of the staff. "I'm so happy the factory is back in business and even more people have come to buy my food, because the workers sym¬pathise with me making no money during the closure and I fed them for free during their protest," she said.