PRESS RELEASE

22 July 2009

Rosario, Cavite

With strong indignation against a systematic effort by what it deems a repressive and anti-people government to harass and intimidate its ranks and worker’s unions, the Solidarity of Cavite Workers or SCW joins other people’s organizations in the Southern Tagalog Region (STR) and the National Capital Region (NCR) in a people’s march, which will culminate in a people’s rally during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s State of the Natio...

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.

The PSAC has been among the numerous Canadian and international unions to put pressure on the Philippine government to address the alarming rate of human rights violations and to accept the ILO mission.  The PSAC Social Justice Fund  also sent two delegates to a labour mission in the Southern Tagalog region of ...