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Strike in Hyatt Regency Hotel Enters Its 2nd Week - 23 May 2002 Workers Picket
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Strike
in Hyatt Regency Hotel Enters Its 2nd Week The labor row at Hyatt
Regency Hotel entered its 2nd week today as the management
continues to deny the workers’ demands. Some 200 regular rank and file
workers struck last May 10, 2002 after the Hotel illegally sacked 48
regular workers and replaced them with 60 contractual workers. The management stood
firm on their action despite the union’s proposal to settle the case in
a conference called by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB)
last May 13. Instead, the hotel management petitioned the National Labor
Relations Commission (NLRC) last May 15 to issue a temporary/permanent
injunction against the striking workers. Last May 20, the hotel asked the
labor arbiter to issue the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in 2 days
time. “The TRO would give
the management the sanction to call for police intervention to disperse
the striking workers. Obviously, the Hotel management’s strategy is to
demoralize the strikers by wearing them out, hoping that in process, they
could force the workers to give up their rightful demands,” Edwin
Bustillos, president of Samahan ng mga Manggawa sa Hyatt, said. “Such a strategy
would not work. The strikers vow to continue the struggle. They could not
give up their rights because nothing would be left of them once they give
up on it,” Bustillos said.
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