Lopez locks out workers from ABS-CBN compound
06/27/2010 Dismissed employees of broadcasting giant ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. accused the company’s chairman, Eugenio Lopez III, of unfair labor practices, including union busting. At a recent press conference, the 25 ABS-CBN workers under the ABS-CBN internal job market (IJM) said they were even barred from entering the company premises after a deadline Lopez issued for the workers to accept the so-called regularization scheme lapsed. The regularization scheme, however, was a misnomer since it provided that the salaries of the workers would be slashed to a third of what they used to get. Johnny, not his real name, has been working as a cameraman for ABS-CBN’s current affairs program for 22 years. On June 18, he was told by security guards that he is among those who have been banned from entering the company premises, according to online publication Bulatlat.com. On June 16, Johnny, like many of his colleagues, was summoned to the human resources (HR) department. He was being offered a new contract, stating, among other things, that he has to work for eight hours a day for a salary of P25,000 and that he would be on probationary status for six months. He told the HR staff that he would think about the offer. “It (the offer) is insulting,” Johnny told Bulatlat in an interview, adding that another cameraman who is his junior has been offered P45,000 as salary. “I did not do anything wrong against the company. Why don’t they give me some respect?” Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100627hed3.html |
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