We extend the hand of solidarity to our brothers and sisters
who are working at Seoul
National University Hospital (SNUH) and
fighting for decent pay, better working conditions and protection of job
security. The struggles you are waging mirror the same demands that fellow
workers are currently fighting for at Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of
our country.
The Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) and
the Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines) support the strike of the
SNUH union chapter of the KPTU Health Workers Solidarity Division. In
the face of intransigence by management, only industrial action can force
employers to heed the demands of workers. We condemn the SNUH management to slash
labor costs, undercut labor standards, weaken job security and lower quality
health service.
The same issues animate the struggles that PALEA is waging.
Some 2,400 PALEA members were locked out and terminated as part of a plan to
outsource the airport services, in-flight catering and call center reservations
departments of Philippine Airlines to so-called service providers. The
outsourcing plan sought not just to demolish job security but bust the union
itself.
To resist the imminent implementation of the outsourcing
plan, on September 27, 2011 PALEA undertook a protest at the Manila International
Airport Manila and Cebu, the
two biggest cities in the Philippines .
Through the determined resistance of PALEA members and the
solidarity of the workers movement in our country and even abroad, the new
management of Philippine Airlines management was forced to negotiate. At
present a settlement is near at hand that includes the return of retrenched
PALEA workers back to their regular jobs.
We pledge to publicize the struggle of SNUH workers within
our union membership and among the groups in the Philippines and abroad that have
been part of the PALEA solidarity movement.
PM
PALEA
November 2, 2013
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