Walmart, H&M Pay Cambodian Workers $200,000 In Historic Settlement

When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they're usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn plants that churn out Apple products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Walmart, Sears Holdings and Disney were made, burned to the ground.

But workers at one factory in the developing world appear, at least, to have a happy ending. For two months, around 200 garment workers have been keeping vigil, day and night, outside their former factory in the Cambodian capital, which made clothes for Walmart and H&M. The workers claimed that for four months their wages were inexplicably cut, before the owner closed the factory altogether -- with no notice, or severance.