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Goldilocks’ workers strike over dismissal of 127 personnel
Written by Dennis Estopace / Reporter, BUSINESS MIRROR
Friday, 12 March 2010 20:29
THE strained voice of union leader Butch Peña revealed the tension that clutched some 200 Goldilocks Bakeshop Inc. workers on strike at the company’s cake and food plant in Mandaluyong as they faced off some 30 policemen and a fire truck.
The face-off began after the workers staged a strike beginning 3 a.m. on Thursday at the two plants of the bakery and food manufacturer.
“We’re under a lot of pressure here. But we’ll defend the picket line as much as we can,” Peña told the BusinessMirror.
Peña said there are also a hundred workers at the company’s plant in Sta. Mesa, Manila, but who have been relatively out of the radar of the police as of press time. He explained they staged a strike after the company dismissed some 127 workers last month.
“The conciliatory negotiations collapsed,” Peña said in the vernacular, adding that the union suspected the dismissal of fellow workers begins the company’s move to hire contractual labor.
According to documents from the union Bukluran ng Independenteng Samahan na Itinatag sa Goldilocks (Bisig), the company requested the labor department that the recent and third notice of strike filed by Bisig be converted into preventive mediation.
“Part of their [management’s] manifestation states that ‘the management instructed the affected employees and victims of illegal mass dismissal to attend the livelihood seminar at the company’s office in Pacific Building in Ortigas instead of reporting for work at the plant in Shaw Boulevard.’”
The BusinessMirror called Goldilocks’ office but was only answered by an employee from the accounting department who said they were ordered to go home after lunch.
The two telephone numbers listed in the company’s report to the Securities and Exchange Commission also rang but no one answered.
Goldilocks’ workers strike over dismissal of 127 personnel
Written by Dennis Estopace / Reporter, BUSINESS MIRROR
Friday, 12 March 2010 20:29
THE strained voice of union leader Butch Peña revealed the tension that clutched some 200 Goldilocks Bakeshop Inc. workers on strike at the company’s cake and food plant in Mandaluyong as they faced off some 30 policemen and a fire truck.
The face-off began after the workers staged a strike beginning 3 a.m. on Thursday at the two plants of the bakery and food manufacturer.
“We’re under a lot of pressure here. But we’ll defend the picket line as much as we can,” Peña told the BusinessMirror.
Peña said there are also a hundred workers at the company’s plant in Sta. Mesa, Manila, but who have been relatively out of the radar of the police as of press time. He explained they staged a strike after the company dismissed some 127 workers last month.
“The conciliatory negotiations collapsed,” Peña said in the vernacular, adding that the union suspected the dismissal of fellow workers begins the company’s move to hire contractual labor.
According to documents from the union Bukluran ng Independenteng Samahan na Itinatag sa Goldilocks (Bisig), the company requested the labor department that the recent and third notice of strike filed by Bisig be converted into preventive mediation.
“Part of their [management’s] manifestation states that ‘the management instructed the affected employees and victims of illegal mass dismissal to attend the livelihood seminar at the company’s office in Pacific Building in Ortigas instead of reporting for work at the plant in Shaw Boulevard.’”
The BusinessMirror called Goldilocks’ office but was only answered by an employee from the accounting department who said they were ordered to go home after lunch.
The two telephone numbers listed in the company’s report to the Securities and Exchange Commission also rang but no one answered.
