April 19, 2010. SCW launched protest against the       L-R: Rebecca Chato of BLR;Dir. Eli E. Ricote  OIC-GTID;    
passage of the Save our Industry Act.                        Mr. Tuomo Poutianen, Chief Technical Advisor of BFC &
                                                                                                 ILO; Sec. Rosalinda Baldoz of DoLE & Mr. Andrew J. 
                                                                                                       Samet Partner ...

Due to insufficiency of evidence Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Vivian Monzon-Rojo dismissed qualified theft charges against 25 union members of Golden Will Fashion Philippines Workers Organization-Independent (GWFPWO-Ind) on the 4^th of May 2010.

The Workers Assistance Center, Inc. (WAC) received the decision on July 12, 2010 after almost two years of litigation and struggle of the union workers of GWFPWO-Ind. The case was dismissed after Arman Valdez, also a worker of the GWFI...

3 May 2010

Politically important!

This is how the workers describe the 2010 International Labor Day celebration in the Philippines. The May 1 celebration this year coincided with the Presidential and Local Elections but more importantly the workers and the whole electorate’s participation is crucially significant due to the implementation of the First National Automated Elections.

May One Commemorative Committee

Realizing the importance of this political exercise, religious groups fr...

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...