Press Release
8 August 2009

Reference Person

Merly Grafe

SCW Chairperson

+630968898274 (mobile); 046-8840076 (landline)

Braving the stormy weather, workers from Cavite forwarded a protest letter addressed to President Lee Myung-bak and picketed in the Korean Embassy yesterday, August 7, demanding justice for the workers of Ssangyong Motors Branch in Korea who were brutally attacked by state authorities amidst their 77-day sit-in strike.

Though the workers’ strike in Ssan...

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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...

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Reference: MERLY GRAFE
SCW Chairperson
Tel No.: (+63-46)-8840076

Workers in the Taiwanese-owned Dyna Image Corp. Phils. burst into tears when their supervisor announced on 28 January that it would lay-off by month’s end some 200 workers who had been in the company for two years and less. However, 400 workers were in shocked disbelief when they were given the pink slip when they reported for work this morning. Dyna, located inside the Cavite Economic Zone (CEZ) manufactures conta...