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Subject: Filipino Workers Struggle Against SANTECH (fwd)
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Date: 7.5.96 18:13
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:42:18 +0800 (HKT)
> From: AMRC <amrc@HK.Super.NET>
> Subject: Filipino Workers Struggle Against SANTECH computer parts maker
>
> URGENT ACTION ALERT - Workers' Struggle Against SANTECH (Japan).
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Workers at SANTECH, a 100% Japanese-owned computer components manufacturer
> in the Cavite Export Processing Zone in the Philippines, are the victims of
> illegal dismissals and forced lay-offs.
>
> SANTECH is a manufacturer of floppy disk drives (FDD) and supplies EPSON
> Japan. It started operating in the Cavite Export Processing Zone in May
> 1989. 55% of the 2000 workers will be laid off by the end of May. Previously
> the workforce
> totalled 4000.
>
> On April 1 some 1000 workers were ordered by the management to "voluntarily"
> resign by May 15. By forcing the workers to resign voluntarily the company
> can escape charges of unfair dismissal. Workers have been told by the
> management that if they do not sign letters of resignation they will not
> receive compensation, provident fund payments or any other benefits when
> they are eventually laid-off. Such a threat is an illegal act and violates
> the rights of the workers.
>
> Please send any information on SANTECH and messages of solidarity to AMRC
and:
>
> Father Jose Dizon
> Workers' Assistance Centre c/o Most Holy Rosary Parish
> Rosario, Cavite 4106, Philippines
> Tel: (096) 438 1785
>
> All fax messages should be sent care of the Centre for Trade Union & Human
> Rights
> (CTUHR) in Quezon City, Philippines. Fax: (632) 721 0241
>
> In solidarity, Gerard Greenfield, Research Coordinator
>