NXP Semiconductors Phils. agrees to hike workers wage by 5.25-percent for 2014, and 3.5-percent for 2015 and 2016. It reinstated only half of the 24 union officers it fired last May 5.
Global electronics supplier NXP signs compromise CBA with union
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Dismissed workers of a Samsung supplier picket employers confab
MAKATI City — Filipino workers of one of the biggest electronics firms in the world picketed a government-employers’ forum on Corporate Social Responsibility in Makati City Sept. 3. They lodged an appeal for their reinstatement to one of the companies present. Workers of NXP-Philippines whose 24 union leaders were illegally dismissed last May 5 urged…
Global union calls for reinstatement of NXP unionists, completion of CBA
‘NXP’s cynical strategy to draw out proceedings and break the resolve of 24 loyal workers and trade union leaders, some of whom have been with the company for 20 years, is an overtly aggressive case of union busting, contravening all international standards on labour legislation.’ – IndustriALL
‘NXP workers’ struggle belies Labor Dept. claims of respecting union rights’
“What we are seeing here is not just the violation of workers’ rights but the government’s collusion with big capitalists as shown in its inaction on labor disputes. The government is standing idly by as violations of trade-union rights continue to be committed.” – KMU
Union leaders go bald to protest illegal dismissal
MANILA — Leaders of the workers’ union in NXP Semiconductors Cabuyao Incorporated had their heads shaved in protest of their illegal dismissal during a picket in front of the Labor Department’s main office in Intramuros, Manila this morning. The 24 leaders of NXPSCI Workers’ Union said their employer’s justification in dismissing them – that they…
Thousand NXP workers protest union leaders’ illegal termination
Cabuyao, LAGUNA – Around 1,000 workers of NXP Semiconductors Cabuyao Inc. protested the illegal termination of 24 union leaders amid the ongoing Collective Bargaining Negotiations. Members of the NXPSCI Workers’ Union managed to breach police barricades and hold a protest rally at the company’s compound inside the Light Industry & Science Park (LISP 1). NXP…
Economic zone authority’s role in suppressing wage hike demand, union rights scored
“It is like we are under martial law in the economic zone and in the workplace.” – Reden Alcantara, NXP workers union president.
Labor department intervenes in NXP collective bargaining negotiations
“The management is harassing and threatening workers, telling them they held a concerted action — an illegal strike — when the workers only elected to respect the Philippine holiday. They’re just forcing us to work.”
Citing low wages of no-union electronic workers, NXP nixes wage hike for own workers
“We don’t think our wages are that high, as these aren’t enough to cover the spate of price hikes in goods, services and other utilities.” – workers of NXP
With Determination (and Some Noise), Union Defeats Giant Firm’s Zero-Wage Hike Policy
By MARYA SALAMAT Labor Watch Bulatlat CABUYAO, Laguna, Philippines — As with millions of workers around the globe, the first half of the year has been unkind to Filipino workers of NXP (The Next Performance), a leading global semiconductors company with operations at the Light Industry Science Park in this town. In January, 400 of…