Protected:
March 8, 2010
Unions in call centers would be “like shooting ourselves in the foot!”
January 22, 2010
19 January 2010, Quezon City. –While the most affected economic sectors are merely recovering from the global economic crunch, Philippine Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) remains robust. The sector remains as one of the major drivers of growth of the country’s economy. Read more
Korean foreman sued for murder try
July 4, 2009
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines—A Filipino worker at the shipbuilding company Hanjin has filed a complaint for frustrated murder against a Korean foreman who allegedly attacked him with a metal flashlight in the head and face while at work on June 23. Read more
Union TRO’d in organizing attempt
February 15, 2007
Employers have perfected a new practice in attempting to bust unions. If warnings, threats, intimidation, harassment, transfers of union officers and activists, “carrots”, delaying tactics in hearings, etc. do not work, there is still that ‘legal means’ to thwart union formation . That’s the temporary restraining order (TRO).
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Read this shameless e-mail against a union organizing campaign in a Japanese company. They have become so brazen!
January 28, 2007
Spotlight interview with Josephine de Jesus
November 22, 2005
“Management and workers must work hand in hand. Not only for the company’s success but also for the sake of the employees.”
Brussels, 22 November 2005 (ICFTU OnLine): No union-busting activity. No unfair labour practices. No sexual harassment. Unlike many of EPZ employees in the Philippines, Josephine de Jesus doesn’t have much to complain about. She works for the Japanese-owned Mitsumi company which supplies Nintendo, Sony or Pioneer with electronic parts used in all kinds of audio or video equipment devices. Read more
Spotlight interview with Anna Lee Fos
November 21, 2005
Brussels, 21 November 2005 (ICFTU OnLine): What works in mobilizing Philippine workers? Send them short messages through their cell phones! Anna Lee M. Fos, Research Officer from Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), explains their strategy to combat tactics used to bust local unions in the export-processing zones (EPZs). Read more
Export processing zones in the Philippines – SMS-ing against exploitation
November 21, 2005
Whilst unquestionably constituting an important source of employment, these EPZs fuelling international trade and the profits of the world’s leading electronics and clothing brands, are characterised by their dismal working conditions. Conditions that are worsening as a result of the race to the bottom in labour standards following the deregulation of the global market. Read more
