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PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS HIGH-LEVEL ILO MISSION TO THE COUNTRY posted July3, 2009. The government of the Philippines recently gave in to international and local pressure and agreed to allow a high-level International Labor Organization-led mission to the country.

WORKERS IN CAVITE AND BATANGAS DEMAND FOR JUST, IMMEDIATE AND STRATEGIC COURSE OF ACTION AMIDST CRISIS posted May 1, 2009. United under the slogan “Labanan At Biguin Ang Panunupil Sa Karapatan At Kabuhayan, Makibaka Para Sa Pambansang Industriyalisasyon”, workers from Cavite and Batangas were joined by other people’s oganizations and concerned citizens in simultaneous May One rallies to press their demands for wage hike, job security, immediate economic relief and the transformation of the nation’s economic system to address, avert and eventually thwart the onslaught of economic crises that wreck havoc on the people’s lives.(Read Article)

33 MILITANT UNIONISTS ORDERED ARRESTED, posted April 3, 2009. The Municipal Trial Court in Rosario, Cavite has issued a warrant on March 17, 2009 for the arrest of thirty-three (33) militant unionists charged by the Cavite Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of cases involving direct assault upon agents of persons in authority and grave coercion. Thirty (31) of the accused were officers and members of the Nagkakaisang Manggagawa sa Chong Won (NMCW) and the Kaisahan ng mga Manggagawa sa Phils. Jeon Inc. (KMPJI), while two were officers of the Solidarity of Cavite Workers (SCW). (Read Article)

SECURITY GUARDS DISPERSED WORKERS PROTESTING OVER RIGHTS TO JOB SECURITY, posted March 4, 2009. More than a hundred workers from garments and apparel factories in the First Cavite Industrial Estate (FCIE) who staged a protest rally in front of the enclave in Brgy. Langkaan, Dasmarinas, Cavite last February 26, 2009 was violently dispersed by members of the Right 8 Security Guards posted at the main gate. (Read Article)

Under the central slogan, “Labanan At Biguin Ang Panunupil Sa Karapatan At Kabuhayan, Makibaka Para Sa Pambansang Industriyalisasyon”, workers from Cavite and Batangas pressed for wage hike, job security, job generation, immediate economic relief and the transformation of the national economic system to address and avert the onslaught of the chronic economic crisis engulfing the nation.The May One rallies in Cavite and Batangas was spearheaded by the Solidarity of Cavite Workers (SCW) and the Batangas Labor Alliance for Social Transformation (BLAST), respectively. They we're joined by other people’s organizations and concerned citizens. (For more details, click here.)