By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations between the Lepanto Employees Union–National Federation of Labor Union–Kilusang Mayo Uno (LEU-Naflu-KMU) and Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) hit a deadlock last August 27. “The company will not budge from its zero increase in the first year of the CBA; it…
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Lepanto updates: Lepanto Workers to receive unpaid wages but union busting not resolved
News release November 24, 2010 On the second conciliation meeting on the notice of strike filed by the workers, the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company agrees to pay all monetary claims before end this month. These are, however, the claims specified in the preventive mediation case filed by the workers’ unions 2 years ago. This claims…
Mine Workers Decry Lepanto’s ‘Unfair Labor Practices’
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Labor Watch Northern Dispatch MANKAYAN, Benguet, Philippines — Mine workers at the Lepanto Mine Division of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) picketed the company’s general office to demand a stop to the extended work-rotation scheme and other unfair labor practices. Manny Binhaon Jr., president of Lepanto Employees Union-National Federation of Labor…