Glenn Thompson

Glenn Thompson

Friday, 07 December 2012 00:00

PALEA Workers Enter 14th Month Of Protest

PALEA workers enter their 14th month of protest over outsourcing of jobs. The Union is committed to continue the struggle and will remain on the picket line and will continue to fight until justice is serve.  The negotiation with managerment are occuring at turtle pace with a carrot and stick formula being implemented by management to break the workers.  The worker know this is part of the Airlines negotiation strategy and are will remain standing until justice is serve to PALEA.
Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:00

PALEA Global Action

Global Day of Action for PALEA was a success. Philippine Airlines passengers flying out of San Francisco, Melbourne and Toronto were leafleted. In Hong Kong a PAL ticketing office was leafleted. In Manila, PALEA marched at the entrance to the airport. In Honolulu, the leafleting was done earlier on Dec 8.
 
The actions varied in terms of scale. In Toronto, the picketers with banners aloft practically occupied the terminal, and outnumbered the passengers and check-in agents. And the leafleters had spirited discussions with airport based workers during the action.
 
Warrants of arrest have been issued for three of Kilusang Mayo Uno’s National Council members and one of its regional leaders. Roy Velez (KMU-National Capital Region chairperson), Amelita Gamara (KMU-NCR deputy secretary-general) and Ronald Ian Evidente (KMU-Negros spokesperson) have all been charged of fabricated crimes in connection with the activities of the rebel group New People’s Army.
Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:00

Victory Jailed union leaders freed

The International Union of Foodworkers has announced that Basile Mahan Gahé, general secretary of the national trade union center Dignité in the Ivory Coast, was finally freed from prison and has resumed his union duties. According to the IUF, "Basile warmly thanked all those in the international labour movement who fought for his release.

Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00

Domestic Workers Law promulgated in Brazil

The President of the National Congress, Senator Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), promulgated yesterday (April 2) the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC, in portuguese) which expands the labor rights of domestic workers, known as the Domestic PEC. In a ceremony which was also attended by six ministers, Renan compared the enactment of the PEC with the signing of the Slavery Abolition Law. "Today, 125 years after the end of slavery, only now we are closing the last slave house and throwing away the key," said the president of Congress.
While delegations were present around the world, including: Suzawwe Rossnsa, Labateha Salim (Algeria); Jacques Paris (France); Neili Hester (USA), Juliana Cardoso, Julio Turra (CUT Brasil), Barbara Corrales and Katia Silva (Brazil), Louis (Mexico) and Jean Marc Vilier.
 
On Saturday, June 1st, was held in Port au Prince, Haiti, the continental day for the withdrawal of MINUSTAH troops in that country, in which the CTA Argentina and CUT Brasil took part. On behalf of CTA were present Pablo Micheli, Secretary General, and Fernando "Nando" Acosta, Secretary of Interior.
CUT Brazil National Board Resolutions of June 26 and 27, 2013.
 
1) The National Board, held in São Paulo on 26 and 27 June 2013, calls on working people and their organizations to mobilize around the Working Class Agenda, at this particular moment experienced by the Brazilian nation.
 
Mobilizations of millions across the country who had the support and participation of CUT, placed in the center of the situation the claim for tariffs reduction and public transport quality, health and public education quality, expressing discontent with the way institutional policies have been running, and has had concrete results, the masses in the street achieved the tariff reduction of public transportation in most capitals and many cities, and the issue of political reform – CUT’s traditional struggle – has now gone away from the addicted paralysis of the debates in Parliament and is set for broad debate within society.
Historic call from Ecuador and numerous Nation States for the United Nations to implement binding regulations on Transnational Corporations
 
Over 100 social movements and civil society organizations representing hundreds of thousands workers, peasants, community and indigenous peoples have welcomed the historic call by nine countries together with the African and Arab Groups for binding obligations on Transnational corporations.
 
The historic petition  led by the Ecuadorian government at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, September 13th, marks a departure from reliance on voluntary mechanisms that have marked the corporate social responsibility debate and which have facilitated systematic corporate impunity.
Benjamen Villeno, trade union leader and organizer in the Southern Tagalog region, was abducted by suspected military forces due to his commitment in organizing unions and exposing the current administration's blatant violation of workers' rights, as well as involvement in the exposition and condemnation of systemic government corruption in the Philippines.
Camp Aguinaldo is the main military camp in the Philippines.
 
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One month after Benjamen Villeno, a leader of the Kilusang Mayo Uno in Southern Tagalog, sent his last text message to comrades saying he is being trailed by military men, KMU picketed Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City to demand that Villeno, now declared disappeared, be surfaced.
 
Villeno, 43, was on his way home to Dasmariñas City in Cavite last Aug. 27 when he sent the text message to his comrades in the Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik), KMU’s regional chapter in Southern Tagalog.