Philippines: Locked-out Alta Mode garment workers fight against union-busting

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=684

We've received an urgent request for help from workers at a garment factory in the Philippines.

A hundred workers have been locked out for more than two months now, camped out in front of the main gates of the Mactan Export Zone, which is one of the largest in the country.

As the union put it, "The fight of the Alta Mode workers is a struggle for job security and workers rights."

Alta Mode supplies garments to such global brands as Abercrombie & Fitch, whose 'social compliance manager' is one of the targets of this protest.

No union has managed to successfully organize workers in the three decades that the Mactan Export Zone has been in existence.

Let's put an end to the "no union, no strike" policy of those export zones and support the Alta Mode workers.

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Thanks very much.

Eric Lee

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