- Target:
- The Philippine Government
- Region:
- Philippines
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HHIC Phils Inc or Hanjin
a Korean conglomerate with the single biggest foreign direct investment ($2.1B) in the recent years, claiming to be the fourth largest and with the most advance state of the art shipbuilding facility in the world, located at Subic, Zambales.
For the last two years, Hanjin is the top exporter in Subic Freeport Zone by earning a total amount of $372.74 Million.
The Irony:
From March to July 2011 - Four (4) death cases out of twenty seven (27) accidents had been documented!
The management tries to hide cases of accidents by using vehicles other than ambulance to avoid from being monitored!
In the same period, six (6) cases of industrial violence were documented. Korean superiors yell, swear, knock the heads, kick and hit the workers with hard objects in order to “exact obedience.”
Food is another perennial problem as it was often stale or maggot laden. Only seven (7) bed clinic instead of a fully equipped 300-bed infirmary or emergency hospital to host its’ 22,000 workers inflicted by minor injuries and health related problems such as minor wounds on the skin and limbs, boils and sore eyes due to heat and constant exposure to fumes, chemicals, steel shavings, paint and asbestos.
To top it all, Hanjin management disown liabilities to accidents victims and pass on the responsibilities to the sub-contractors. All of the Philippine workforce are divided/ distributed among nineteen (19) sub-contractors.
HANJIN WORKERS ORGANIZE
Samahan ng mga manggagawa sa Hanjin (SAMAHAN) conduct-ed series of protests action regarding the problems after the management denied its series of requests for dialogues.
Church Labor Conference (CLC) and SAMAHAN lodged com-plaints before DOLE Region III, to the Office of Hon. DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz and to His Excellency President Noy-Noy Aquino, urging their Offices to use their visitorial power to implement Occupational Health and Safety Standards over the management of HAN-JIN in Subic Shipyard. BUT right after the dialogue, Hanjin management terminated and suspended leaders and members that participated in the protest actions. And the unities that has been arrived at in the said dialogue as well as the agreed upon succeeding monthly dialogue has yet to materialize.
Under the present circum-stances the Hanjin workers cannot achieve their demands by themselves alone!
Thus, we need you to be A FRIEND OF HANJIN WORKERS!
Uphold Filipino Workers’ Rights in our Country:
Dignity for Hanjin Workers
The 23,000 Filipino workforce in Hanjin Shipyard are subjected to unsafe working conditions that resulted to 40 deaths and almost 5,000 work-related accidents, provide insufficient, stale and sometimes maggot-laden food in the canteen, and receive insufficient and poor-quality personnel protective equipments (PPE) and maltreated by their Korean superiors.
The abovementioned issues of the Hanjin Filipino shipbuilders were ignored by the past Arroyo administration, by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region III and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) despite of the Senate labor committee recommendations issued last February 2009.
For the past two years and a half, the following remained unimplemented: a. building of a 300- bed hospital facility inside the 230 hectares facility; b. issuance of complete and high quality Personnel Protective Equipments; and c.) implementation of the Occupational Health and Safety standards (OHSS) for shipbuilding, shipwrecking and ship repair according to the Department Circular No.1 Series of 2009 of the occupational Health and Safety Center (OHSC) giving due accord that shipbuilding in nature is already high risk.
Today, under the President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, 32 accidents resulting to 4 deaths and 7 cases of maltreatment since March, 2011 prompting the workers association SAMAHAN or Samahan ng mga Manggagawa sa Hanjin Shipyard to write letters to the management and the labor department for immediate actions.
Yet these efforts were met with repressive actions from the management such as interrogations, illegal arrests, terminations, and detentions. Meanwhile, the labor department refrained from taking concrete and clear actions to propel this company into compliance with the Philippine labor code.
The Korean capitalists’ intransigence is marked by ignoring the intervention and appeal of the Church-Labor Conference and the National Secretariat for Social Action of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (NASSA-CBCP), in behalf of the workers.
With these developments, the company remains not directly responsible of the human rights and workers rights violations it committed against the Filipino workers instead its notoriety continues as the agencies concerned dilly dally.
It is every person’s right to work in safe condition and to labor with dignity. These must be fully accorded to the Filipino workers of Hanjin. Thus, in solidarity with the Hanjin workers, we affix our signature as an expression of our unity with the Hanjin workers struggle.
Friends of Hanjin Workers
February 15, 2012
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The Dignity for Hanjin Workers! Dignity for All! petition to The Philippine Government was written by Friends of Hanjin Workers - Philippines and is in the category Justice at GoPetition.