Reference:
Laura Sarmiento
RDIP Officer 
Workers Assistance Center
Tel. no.: (046)-8840076

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 t...

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.

Six security guards, not all of them in uniform, initially tried to prevent workers from holding a program saying that it is not permitted because it is a private zone.

The commotion s...

On tour “Pagsambang Bayan” (literally translates People’s Mass/Worship), a play acclaimed for its bold defiance and militance during Martial Law years was once again restaged and for the first time shown in Cavite last February 28, 2009 at the Emilio Aguinaldo College in Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Written by award winning writer Bonifacio P. Ilagan and directed by the highly acclaimed Behn Cervantes, the play was basically a Christian mass played lively with speech choirs and musical choruses...

MEDIA RELEASE
February 26, 2009

Reference Person:
Laura Sarmiento, WAC-RDIP Program Officer
+63-927-282-7028, wacrdip@hotmail.com

For more information or interviews, please contact:
MERLY GRAFE
Chairperson, Solidarity of Cavite Workers
Tel No.: (+63-46)-8840076

The Solidarity of Cavite Workers (SCW), leads workers and unions from garments and apparel factories in staging a protest rally in front of the First Cavite Industrial Estate (FCIE) in Brgy. Langkaan, Dasmariñas, Cavite on February 26, a...

PRESS RELEASE

Citing loss of confidence on his integrity and impartiality to hear and decide the instant case pending before his Court, Judge Tomas Leynes of the Regional Trial Court Branch 40 in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro inhibited himself from hearing the multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder case filed by the Provincial Prosecutor and the Philippine National Police against 72 individuals, a number of whom are known leaders and personalities of people’s organizations in the Calab...