Nestlé Phillippines Striking Workers Online Petition: Please sign on
Dear comrades,
An online online petition has just been launched in support fo the striking Nestle workers in the Philippines. Please take one minute to sign it.
http://pinas-first.com/phpPETITION/
Nestlé workers in the Philippines under the United Filipino Employees-Drug Food and Allied Industries -Kilusang Mayo Uno (UFE-DFA-KMU) have been on strike since January 14, 2002 for their right to retirement benefits. To this day, Nestlé refuses to include the workers’ retirement benefits in the collective bargaining negotiation despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering them to negotiate. The strike has both directly and indirectly resulted in the deaths of 26 union members, including union president Diosdado Fortuna, who was assassinated on his way home from the picket line on September 22, 2005, his predecessor Meliton Roxas was also murdered and the current leadership continue to live in fear of their lives. Attached is an more information on the strike and the repression that the workers have endured. And what solidarity is being requested.
Bulatlat media has also just compiled a slide show of our recent protest and of another in Vienna.
In solidarity
Luke Coxon
Auckland Philippines Solidarity
