Advisory: Picket at biggest illegal “labor-only contractor”

Media Advisory

06 October 2014

Contact: Edsil Bacalso

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 In observance of “Global Day for Decent Work”

Picket at biggest illegal “labor-only contractor”

Tomorrow, 7 October 2014

10:00 AM

Assembly @ Kapitolyo gate, Pasig City

Then march to nearby Asiapro Building

The Nagkaisa labor coalition will hold a picket at Asiapro to demand a stop to the illegal operations of Asiapro which in the guise of a “workers cooperative” of some 34,000 members is in reality a labor-only contractor. A coordinated picket of Asiapro’s satellite office in downtown Cebu City will also be held tomorrow by Nagkaisa’s member groups. A labor dispute at the giant Carmen Copper mine in Toledo City, Cebu involving Asiapro remains pending to this day. The action tomorrow follows on the heels of an earlier picket that led to Asiapro’s filing of libel and public scandal cases against leaders of Nagkaisa.