IndustriALL Global Union is outraged to learn of NXP Cabuyao’s gross violations of trade union rights, including sheer acts of intimidation and harassment aimed at weakening the bargaining power of the union. In a strong worded letter IndustriALL is urging NXP to to reinstate right away the 24 dismissed union officers, stop harassing the workers and respect their right to conduct peaceful actions.

IndustriALL Global Union is outraged to learn of NXP Cabuyao’s gross violations of trade union rights, including sheer acts of intimidation and harassment aimed at weakening the bargaining power of the union.  24 union officers of the NXP Semiconductors Company Workers' Union were unfairly dismissed by the company on 5 May on account of their union’s peaceful industrial actions. The company’s behaviour constitutes a clear violation of fundamental workers’ rights and trade union rights, which are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Philippines as well as core labour conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which the government of the Philippines has ratified.

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