Rebs list 4 firms in ‘order of battle’
Four companies operating in the Davao Region are facing charges before the communist movement’s People’s Court for various offenses against the masses, according to the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions (RTCU), a workers group aligned with the National Democratic Front (NDF), the political arm of the Communist Party of the Philipines (CPP).
RTCU named the companies as the Davao City Water District (DCWD), Stanfilco-Dole Philippines, Lapanday Group of Companies and Franklin Baker.
The militant council, in a statement, said owners and top managers of the companies would be held responsible for massive displacement of workers, economic sabotage and despotism, in the cases to be filed before the People’s Court of the Philippine Democratic Government in the countryside.”
RTCU said Franklin Baker, a company producing coconut by-products operating a plant in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, retrenched 242 workers after adopting a contractual system for its workers. The same charge is leveled against Lapanday, a banana-growing company, which it said has dismissed 500 workers from its packing plants and trucking operations.
DCWD, according to RTCU also terminated two union officers and suspended 38 workers for joining a legitimate picket at the DCWD compound. RCTU also charged Stanfilco-Dole of the same offense with the termination of 119 workers.
Filed under: NEW PEOPLES ARMY, NPA, davao city | Tagged: davao city water district, dole-stanfilco, franklin baker, lapanday, NEW PEOPLES ARMY, peoples court
