Banana workers in ComVal declare victory over reinstatement of dismissed colleagues
Workers reported for work at 5:00 am Friday after their nine-day strike against the Japanese-owned banana plantation Sumifru Corp. in Compostela Valley.
Workers reported for work at 5:00 am Friday after their nine-day strike against the Japanese-owned banana plantation Sumifru Corp. in Compostela Valley.
Tribal and farmers groups and human rights advocates from both local and national offices will conduct an on-site probe on Saturday on the massacre of tribesmen in Paquibato district here.
Relatives of the victims of the alleged “massacre” in Paradise Embac, Paquibato District here trooped to the City Council on Tuesday calling for justice for their slain family members.
A soldier and three other Army men fell as casualties in a recent attack of the New People's Army in Bukidnon on Sunday afternoon.
The military on Sunday announced they killed three members of the New People's Army in Paquibato District here, but human rights group Karapatan condemned the killing as a "massacre" of three civilian tribal leader, village (purok) leader, and a resident, as well as an attempted murder of a woman farmer leader.