Labor Dispute Continues at Wyeth-Pfizer, Workers Slam Company Harassment
For all its claims of trying to make society better and healthier by providing it with quality medicines, milk and other products, Wyeth-Pfizer Philippines is making its own workers ill because of its countless anti-labor acts.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — For all its claims of trying to make society better and healthier by providing it with quality medicines, milk and other products, Wyeth-Pfizer Philippines is making its own workers ill because of its countless anti-labor acts.
The Wyeth Philippines Progressive Workers Union (WPPWU-DFA-KMU) has been up in arms against the pharmaceutical giant’s continuing harassment and intimidation against its ranks as the management ignores workers’ justified demands for increased wages, retirement and separation pay.
Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the union and the Wyeth-Pfizer management started on July 2010. A deadlock on the negotiations was declared the following November , however, when the management continued with what the workers called “bargaining in bad faith.”
According to union president Dennis Galido, on the last day of the negotiations, the management suddenly refused to honor provisions that both parties had previously agreed on . The management also reportedly threatened the union that those provisions would be completely withdrawn or changed if the union is not amenable to settling the remaining items on the agenda, namely the issue of retirement and redundancy packages.
“The management has already gotten a compromise on the union’s wage increase demand. The wage hike demand for a three year employment contract represents only 10 percent of the current salary, but it was still trimmed down by another 65 percent because of the management’s hardline position,” he said..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
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