For nine years, Lester Pillado works as a contractual in a fruit processing company here.
Sacked workers of Japanese-owned frozen food exporter Nakashin Davao International set up a protest camp outside the company's office in Malagamot here Thursday, April 21 to demand for their immediate reinstatement.
Labor groups expressed worry that the recent decision of the Office of the Ombudsman to dismiss local officials does not hold national officials accountable over the slipper factory fire in Valenzuela City last year.
Banana workers from different Sumifru packing plants in Compostela Valley stage a rally to support their colleagues in the company’s cold storage facility who mounted a protest over the fruit giant’s refusal to enter into a new collective bargaining agreement.
Activists here expressed solidarity with the workers of rubber slippers Kentex Manufacturing Incorporated who died in what was touted as the biggest factory fire in the country.