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.
The tribal representative to the City Council here on Tuesday, urged the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to investigate complaints of abuse relating to their land in the northwestern part of this city.
Dismissed workers of a banana company warned that they will call upon the members of their association to launch a wider strike should the management fail to reinstate them.
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.