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Sofitel Philippine Plaza at unyon nito, pumirma na ng bagong CBA
Pumirma
na ng kanilang bagong collective bargaining agreement (CBA) ang Sofitel
Philippine Plaza at ang unyon nito, ito ang pahayag kahapon ni G. Reynaldo
R. Ubaldo ng National Conciliation and Mediation Board.
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37 YOSHIDA farm arms workers get
1.6M, drop notice of strike
Through a series of conciliation conferences, Regional Conciliation and
Mediation Board Branch XI resolved the labor dispute filed by the Yoshida
Farm Labor Union-ADLO-KMU against management and was able to ease the
employment woes of 37 workers, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
said today.
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NCMB to conduct orientation on due
process to KQT hauling employees
The National Conciliation and Mediation Board Regional Branch VII shall
orient members of the KQT-ALU on due process after the PM case involving the
union and KQT Hauling Services was amicably resolved, NCMB Executive
Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.Read
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SOFITEL EMPLOYEES GET P50M in new CBA
“The National Conciliation and Mediation Board – NCR was able to amicably
settle the bargaining deadlock between luxury hotel, Sofitel Philippine
Plaza and its union,” NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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ST. LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER settles
illegal suspension case
The National Conciliation and Mediation Board-NCR has amicably settled the
labor case filed against St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City by the union
over alleged illegal suspension, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
said today.
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24 Norsteel workers get P300k in financial assistance
Some 24 workers of defunct Norsteel Fabrication Service received P300,000 in
financial assistance following the resolution of their notice of strike by
the Regional Conciliation and Mediation Branch – NCR, NCMB Executive
Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Unpaid for almost 3 years, 13th
month pay released in just 2 weeks thru SENA
A medical representative from Bacolod
City recently received her 13th month pay after just two weeks
from filing her complaint with the RCMB 6, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo
R. Ubaldo said today.
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Retrenched employees get
separation pay thru SENA
Cebu City - Seventy-one
retrenched employees of the Goji Industries Philippines, Inc., manufacturer
of camera parts and accessories located at the Mactan Economic Zone 1, have
received their separation pay, thanks to the Single Entry Approach program,”
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Sofitel Philippine Plaza at unyon nito, pumirma na ng bagong CBA
Pumirma
na ng kanilang bagong collective bargaining agreement (CBA) ang Sofitel
Philippine Plaza at ang unyon nito, ito ang pahayag kahapon ni G. Reynaldo
R. Ubaldo ng National Conciliation and Mediation Board.
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Everbright, union end CBA
dead lock, P14m economic package benefits 134 employees
The bargaining deadlock between Everbright Net & Twine Manufacturing Corp.
and its union, Lakas ng Manggagawa sa Everbright, has been resolved through
the joint facilitation efforts of two conciliator-mediators from the
Regional Conciliation and Mediation Board-NCR, NCMB Executive Director
Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Industrial relations
situation remains stable
Industrial peace
continues to persist as the country remains strike-free for the first four
months of 2013, Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo of the National
Conciliation and Mediation Board said today.
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Kapayapaang pang-industrya,
patuloy na namamayani sa buong bansa
Patuloy na umiiral ang kapayapaang pang-industrya sa mga pribadong pagawaan
sa bansa, ito ang pahayag kahapon ni G. Reynaldo R. Ubaldo, tagapangasiwa ng
National Conciliation and Mediation Board, isang ahensiyang nakakabit sa
Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Panghanapbuhay o DOLE.
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Kingsmen, Union submit labor case to
Voluntary Arbitration
The Kingsmen Employees Union-CFW and Kingsmen Corporation have agreed to
submit their Unfair Labor Practice issue to voluntary arbitration to prevent
a work stoppage and maintain industrial peace, National Conciliation and
Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Management initiative hastens
deadlock settlement in just three conferences
“The initiative of a hospital’s management in seeking assistance from the
National Conciliation and Mediation Board to facilitate the ongoing
collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiations with its union has borne
positive result,” NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Union drops labor case vs IBEDEN Phils
The labor case filed by the Obrero Pilipino – Ibiden chapter
with the Regional Conciliation and Mediation Branch IVA has been amicably
resolved after both parties agreed to discuss the issues at plant level,
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said.
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NORSAMELCO, union settle dispute on
work appointment scramble
The labor dispute involving the North Samar Electric Cooperative (NORSAMELCO)
over alleged questionable work transfers has been resolved in just fifteen
days following successful conciliation efforts of the Regional Conciliation
and Mediation Board Branch VIII, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
said.
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Thru NCMB conciliation,
dismissed employee gets retirement pay
Cebu City – RCMB 7 has
settled the case of a union president who was dismissed for violating
company rules and regulations, NCMB Executive Director announced today.
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Union withdraws Notice of Strike vs
DLTBCO
Lakas ng Manggagawa ng DLTBCO has withdrawn its notice of strike against the
Del Monte Land Transportation Bus Co. (DLTBCO) after two successful
conciliation conferences facilitated by the NCR branch of the National
Conciliation and Mediation Board, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
said today.
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Union drops ULP case vs Management after three conciliation meetings
The Supervisory Employees of National Employees of National Grid Corporation
Organization (SENGCO) has dropped its preventive mediation case against
electric power distributor National Grid Corporation of the Philippines
filed with the National Conciliation and Mediation Board Regional Branch XI,
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
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Thru NCMB conciliation,
dismissed employee gets retirement pay
Cebu
City – RCMB 7 has settled the case of a union president who was dismissed
for violating company rules and regulations, NCMB Executive Director
announced today.
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Union gets P2M in benefits after three conciliation meetings
In just three conciliation meetings, the parties at Metrodrug Incorporated
were able to settle their preventive mediation case and forge a collective
bargaining agreement through the help of the National Conciliation and
Mediation Board – NCR, NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said
today.
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Impasse
over 14th month benefit submitted to voluntary arbitration
A labor dispute involving leading coconut products producer,
Franklin Baker of the Philippines over exclusion of union members among the
recipients of 14th month benefits has been submitted to voluntary
arbitration for proper interpretation of the collective bargaining
agreement, Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis Baldoz said yesterday.
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Mactan
Isla Resorts, union sign first CBA
Mactan Isla
Resorts and the Mactan Isla Resorts Employees Union ALU-TUCP recently sign
their maiden CBA as RCMB Director Edmund T. Mirasol looked on. The signing
was held at the NCMB –RB 7 DOLE Building, General Maxilom Avenue corner
Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City on April 12, 2013.
National Conciliation and
Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo reported today that
the union and management representatives of Mactan Isla Resorts have signed
their first ever CBA.
Citing a report from RCMB 7
Director Edmund T. Mirasol Ubaldo said the parties signed their CBA on
April 12, 2013 during a simple ceremony held at the RCMB 7 office.
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Checker receives monetary claims through
SENA
A
checker was paid P 20,000 in separation and other benefits after the
Regional Conciliation and Mediation Branch IV-A resolved his complaints
against his employer through the Single Entry Approach (SENA).
Mr.
Hilario G. Ocoma, who worked for eleven years at Sun Moon Star Hardware and
Construction Supply in Barangay Lalo, Tayabas, Quezon, filed a complaint for
illegal dismissal, non-payment of overtime and holiday pay against his
employer last April 8, 2013.
National Conciliation and Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R.
Ubaldo, in his report to Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz,
said the complaint of Ocoma was settled on April 15, 2013, during the
first and only conciliation meeting presided by RCMB IV-A
Officer-in-Charge Director Gil G. Caragayan to resolve the issue.
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Company, union submit
wage woes to voluntary arbitration
A labor dispute against Leyte III Electric Cooperative (LEYECO III) on the
alleged non-implementation of wage orders and salary guidelines filed last
April 8, 2013 at the National Conciliation and Mediation Board Regional
Branch VIII has been submitted for voluntary arbitration, NCMB Executive
Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo announced today.
“The union filed a preventive mediation case against the management, citing
non-implementation of NEA salary guidelines and wage orders no. 16 and 17
among their list of concerns,” he said.
A
report from RCMB VIII Conciliator-Mediator Tomas B. Biboso also stated that
the union is questioning management’s decision on implementing a salary
increase based on NEA guidelines. The union told Biboso that some employees
received salary increases while the others did not.
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NCMB
chief resolves dispute vs Banana handlers
With the team effort of two conciliator-mediators and the supervision of
National Conciliation and Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R.
Ubaldo, the settlement of the labor case filed against banana handler, Craft
Haven International Services, Incorporated (CHISI) has been resolved in five
conciliation meetings conducted in just over a month.
“In
the interest of industrial peace, our team composed of RCMB XII
Officer-In-Charge Feliciano R. Orihuela Jr., RCMB XI Officer-in-Charge
Paciano L. Murro Jr. and I facilitated the settlement of the preventive
mediation case filed against CHISI,” Ubaldo said.
“I had to personally attend to this matter because aside from the ongoing
CBA negotiations, 12 employees were affected by a redundancy program
implemented by the management,” he added.
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SENA saves 350 jobs at
Unilever Philippines
For
350 contractual workers of Unilever Philippines, Inc., the termination of
the service contract between the UPI and their employer, the Excel Quality
Incorporated came as a blessing in disguise.
Facing
the prospect of going jobless when the service contract between their
employer and its principal ended in December 2012, their worries turned into
joy after the NCR branch of the NCMB succeeded in negotiating for the
absorption of a majority of the workers by the UPI.
“The
NCMB NCR, through the efforts of Conciliator-Mediator Angelita Narvaez,
managed to persuade the management of Unilever Philippines to absorb 350 of
the 630 workers,” NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said.
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7 seafarers get P18 M in awards through
conciliation
NCMB Executive Director
Reynaldo R. Ubaldo reported today the settlement through conciliation of
various claims filed by seafarers in the NCR branch of the National
Conciliation and Mediation Board.
In his report to Labor
Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Ubaldo said seven seafarers benefited
from the more than P 18 M in monetary awards resulting from the settlement
of their cases during the months of February and March 2013.
“Each of the seven seafarers
got benefits ranging from P1.4 M to P3.6 M,” Ubaldo said.
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RCMB 3 settles ULP dispute
at fiberglass factory
The preventive mediation
case involving Bahrain Fiberglass has been settled amicably, effectively
preventing the escalation of the case into a more serious labor dispute,
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
The case, which was filed
by the Bahrain Fiberglass Workers Union on March 11, 2013 was settled on
March 27, 2013 through the efforts of RCMB 3 Conciliator-Mediator Onofre H.
Bautista,” Ubaldo said.
The union had accused
management of unfair labor practice, citing violation of certain provisions
of the CBA, non-remittance of SSS and Pag-ibig contributions, harassment,
inhuman working conditions, and non-compliance of the agreement facilitated
by NCMB.
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Pawnshop cashier’s claims
resolved in just one day
Jefferson Bonilla has been
working with Cebuana Lhuillier as cashier for less than a year when he
decided to quit, yielding to the lure of greener pasture abroad.
In November 2012, he left
the company and flew to Dubai in search for a better opportunity.
But having left in haste,
he failed to collect his 13th month pay and differential on his
wage adjustment, as well as the certification of his premium contributions
with SSS, Philhealth, and Pag-ibig.
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NCMB settles case involving
exclusive school
The notice of strike
involving the Paref Southridge School for Boys has been amicably settled
following successful conciliation efforts of NCMB-NCR, NCMB Executive
Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said today.
Citing a report from NCR
OIC Amorsolo V. Aglibut, Ubaldo said the parties agreed to settle on March
18, 2013, putting an end to their protracted CBA negotiations.
On December 11, 2012, the
union, Paref Southridge Teachers Union, filed a notice of strike alleging
bargaining deadlock on the issues of scholarship for dependents, union
leaves, de-loading of union president and vice-president, union coverage,
sabbatical leaves, sick leave conversion, retirement benefits, service
awards, credit leaves, signing bonus, and wage increase.
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CONCILIATION
SOLVES CBA DEADLOCK IN GLASS COMPANY
Anglo-Watson Glass, Incorporated and its union have agreed to
terminate their labor dispute and forge an agreement after reaching an
amicable settlement in just four conciliation meetings, National
Conciliation and Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
announced yesterday.
“The settlement time of this labor
dispute was commendable, considering that the case filed was a Preventive
Mediation case,” Ubaldo said.
The union filed a PM case on
February 25, 2013, against Anglo-Watson Glass, Inc., alleging negotiation
stalemate on economic issues in their Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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NCMB-NCR CUTS
SETTLEMENT TIME OF LABOR WOES VS THRIFT BANK
The bargaining deadlock involving the Luzon Development Bank has been
amicably resolved in just a matter of two conciliation meetings with the
help of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board–NCR, NCMB Executive
Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo announced yesterday.
“The union and the management of the bank originally allotted four
conciliation meetings for negotiations but both parties managed to reach a
settlement on their second meeting,” Ubaldo said.
The
Association of Luzon Development Bank Employees-PTGWO filed a notice of
strike against Luzon Development Bank on March 6, 2013, alleging negotiation
stalemate on all economic issues.
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RESOLUTION OF ULP ISSUES PAVES WAY FOR CBA NEGOTIATION
National
Concilation and Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
announced today the amicable settlement of the Notice of Strike filed by the
Batangas Star Express Corp. Workers Union-AGLO against Batangas Star
Express, Corporated, diffusing tensions that could have led to a
debilitating strike in the bus company.
Citing a report from Conciliator-Mediator George R. Ridad of
RCMB IVA, Ubaldo said the parties agreed to settle on April 3, 2013
following successful efforts by Con-Med Ridad to resolve their differences.
According to Ridad, the union filed a notice of strike on
March 22, 2013 for alleged unfair labor practice, specifically harassment,
discrimination, and union busting.
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LABOR CASE VS BANANA GROWER RESOLVED THROUGH CONCILIATION
The bargaining standoff involving Davao-based banana grower, Sumifru
Philippines Corporation and its union, have been settled in just a matter of
three conciliation meetings, National Conciliation and Mediation Board
Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo announced yesterday.
“The efforts of RCMB XI in amicably settling the case in just three
conciliation meetings is commendable considering that the union raised
thirteen issues in their bargaining standoff,” Ubaldo said.
Citing a report from Officer-in-Charge Paciano L. Murro of RCMB-XI, Ubaldo
said the union filed a preventive mediation case on February 28, 2013 for
negotiation gridlock on thirteen economic provisions of the CBA.
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PNOY SIGNS MANDATORY CONCILIATION-MEDIATION LAW
Malacanang Palace has
reaffirmed the role of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in the
preservation of industrial peace and workplace harmony through the signing
into law of Republic Act No. 10396 or the Mandatory Conciliation-Mediation
Law, Labor Undersecretary Rebecca C. Chato announced last March 19, 2013 at
the launching of the 2013 Best Practices Awards on Workplace Harmony and
Productivity in Quezon City.
“President Aquino gave
conciliation-mediation a boost with the signing into law of R.A. 10396 last
March 14, 2013, institutionalizing conciliation-mediation as a voluntary
mode of dispute settlement for all labor cases,” Usec. Chato said.
“The article on
conciliation-mediation shall be inserted as article 228 of Presidential
Decree No. 442, otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines,” she
said.
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CONCILIATION-MEDIATION SETTLES BARGAINING DEADLOCK
The bargaining deadlock involving the Jason Manufacturing Phils. Corp. has
been amicably settled after a series of conciliation-mediation conferences,
National Conciliation and Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R.
Ubaldo announced yesterday.
“We are pleased to announce that both parties have mutually agreed to settle
their labor dispute in the interest of industrial peace,” Ubaldo said.
The union filed a preventive mediation case on January 22, 2013, citing
bargaining deadlock on economic issues on wage increase, signing bonus, rice
subsidy, death benefits, hospitalization, and compulsory retirement.
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PAVA HAILS OUTSTANDING VOLUNTARY ARBITRATORS AWARD
“It is high time that we recognize exemplary voluntary
arbitrators to encourage them to excel and contribute to the labor justice
system.”
Philippine Association of Voluntary Arbitration (PAVA)
President Atty. Delia Uy thus said as she spoke at the launching of the 2013
Best Practices Awards on Workplace Harmony and Productivity.
The 2013 Search for Outstanding Voluntary Arbitrators Award
is one of the three awards launched by the National Conciliation and
Mediation Board to enhance the promotion of voluntary arbitration program
and to motivate voluntary arbitrators to improve their performance in the
handling and resolution of labor cases.
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STEEL MANUFACTURER, UNION SIGNS CBA AFTER BARGAINING DEADLOCK
Regan Industrial Sales Incorporated and its union finally
agreed on the terms of their a Collective Bargaining Agreement following
successful negotiations facilitated by RCMB-NCR, National Conciliation and
Mediation Board Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo said yesterday.
“On March 6, 2013, the Nagkakaisang Samahan ng mga Manggagawa
sa Regan-NSMR-ADLO-KMU filed a notice of strike, citing deadlock in
negotiations for the remaining two years of their CBA,” Ubaldo said.
The union specified wage increase, 13th month pay,
Christmas bonus, monthly allowance, separation pay, back wages, signing
bonus, sick leave/vacation leave, office rental and union leave as issues in
the negotiation stalemate.
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WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY VITAL TO THE ECONOMY
The
importance of addressing workplace issues and concerns in empowering the
economy in today’s challenging economic condition was emphasized by Labor
Undersecretary for Labor Relations Rebecca C. Chato during the launching of
the 2013 Best Practices Awards of Workplace Harmony and Productivity at the
Ichikawa Hall, Occupational Safety and Health Center in North Avenue, Quezon
City on March 19, 2013.
“Businesses could only be protected by highly evolved employer-worker
relation,” Usec. Chato said in her keynote speech.
By
highly evolved employer-worker relations she meant the existence of labor
management committees or councils (LMCs) in the workplace. An LMC is a
mechanism designed to encourage positive interaction between management and
workers and promote industrial peace. It is a body composed of
representatives from both labor and management that resolves issues of
common interest.
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Philippines strike-free for first quarter
of 2013
NCMB Executive Director
Reynaldo R. Ubaldo has reported that the entire country was strike-free for
the first three months of 2013.
In his report to Labor
Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Director Ubaldo said that it was the
second year in a row that no strike occurred during the first quarter.
“We did this through the
provision of timely, efficient, and effective conciliation-mediation
services to parties involved in potential or brewing labor disputes,” he
said.
“Our time tested strategies of
24/7 conciliation and team/buddy conciliation have been effective in
diffusing tensions between labor and management, preventing what could have
been debilitating strikes in many companies,” Ubaldo said further.
Team conciliation and 24/7
scheme in attending to conciliation-mediation cases are being implemented by
the NCMB to effectively manage labor disputes and minimize, if not prevent
losses to the workers, to the company, and to the economy.
Under the 24/7 scheme,
conciliator-mediators are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to
ensure quick response to clients’ requests for assistance and to make sure
that labor disputes are attended to, with the purpose of bringing about
early and amicable settlement.
Team, or buddy, conciliation is
a scheme or strategy anchored on the principle “Two heads are better than
one”. It involves partnering of two to three conciliators whose combined
efforts and expertise are expected to facilitate settlement of critical and
difficult cases.
“Threats of a strike also
declined considerably, as notices of strike filed by unions continue to
follow a downward trend,” Director Ubaldo disclosed further.
He said that NCMB regional
branches received 36 notices of strike during the quarter, 14% fewer than
the 42 cases docketed during the same period last year.
There is a slight increase in
workers involved in new notices of strike, though, hinting that bigger
companies are the targets of fresh strike threats. Some 5,334 workers are
involved in the 36 NS cases received during the first quarter of 2013, 2%
more than the 5,230 workers involved in the 42 cases docketed in similar
period in 2012.
Independent unions account for
close to half – 17 cases or 47% – of the 36 new notices filed during the
quarter, which indicates that an actual strike may not happen very soon.
Federated unions, or unions
allied with federations and trade union centers, are more likely to declare
a strike than the more moderate independent ones.
In 2012, all the three strikes
were declared by unions allied with NAFLU-KMU. Of the 33 notices of strike
pending as of 31 March 2013, ten cases were filed by unions allied with
either KMU or NAFLU.
“We continue to exert efforts
to maintain the current state of labor relations in the country, so
disruptions in the industrial front do not get in the way of the
administration’s efforts to secure a better life for our people, most
especially the private sector workers who comprise a large segment of our
population,” Ubaldo said.
Secretary Baldoz commended NCMB
for its efforts and said that “with this development, we hope to attain our
objective of zero strike this year.”
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WILLIAM E.
CALINA, labor communications officer, NCMB
In CARAGA: Three new CBAs signed in a single
week
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo
announced today the signing in March 2013 of three new collective bargaining
agreements (CBAs) in the CARAGA region.
“This signing of three CBAs
in a single month is unprecedented,” he enthused. “Actually, all three CBAs
were signed within a single week, the second week of March 2013,” he said.
“First to sign their new CBA
are the union and management of Prudential Brokerage Services, Inc., which
set the tone for the signing of two more CBAs in CARAGA,” Ubaldo further
said.
He said the parties signed
their new CBA in simple ceremonies at the plant level on 12 March 2013.
”It is the first ever CBA
between the parties,” Ubaldo said. “It will retroact to June 1, 2011 and
shall be binding between the parties until May 31, 2016.”
“The economic provisions,
however, will be up to May 31, 2013, meaning anytime now, the parties might
be negotiating again for the economic provisions for the fourth and fifth
years,” he added.
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