Honduras-- More than two thousand workers at the Hugger and Vision Tex factories, former producers of Nike apparel, obtained victory after the multinational company and the Central General Trabajones de Honduras (CGT) announced last July 26 an agreement that will provide US$1.5 million fund for the laid-off workers.
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights calls on everyone to support the 25 workers of ABS-CBN IJM who were constructively dismissed starting June 16 after refusing to accept a flawed “regularization program” offered by the management ABS-CBN, the largest media conglomerate in the Philippines.
Negros Occidental -- Another labor leader, Benjamin Bayles, 44, was murdered last June 14, 2010 by alleged members of 61st Infantry Batallion Philippines Army.