Advisory: Striking Cavite women workers to protest today at DOLE main office and call for Labor Secretary intervention

Media Advisory

January 17, 2017

Partido Manggagawa

Contact Mercy Tanginan (union pres) @ 09300767018

Striking Cavite women workers to protest today at DOLE main office and call for Labor Secretary intervention

WHAT: Labor Secretary asked to intervene as mediation scheduled between striking women workers and electronics firm Lakepower Converter Inc.

WHEN: January 17 (Wednesday), 9:00 am

WHERE: DOLE National office, Intramuros, Manila

DETAILS:

Women workers of electronics firm Lakepower in Cavite ecozone have been on strike for more than a month now. They are calling on the office of the Labor Secretary to intervene to resolve the protracted dispute. The workers are calling for a stop to the termination and suspension of union officers and members. The protracted labor dispute is a litmus test of the right to unionize for workers in the export processing zones. ###