Philippines

Stop trade union repression! Justice for the all victims of trade union repression! Fight for the right to organize!
 
Are workers in your country free to organize unions? 
 
Stop trade union repression !
 
Justice for the all victims of trade union repression !
 
Fight for the right to organize !
 
November 16, 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre
November 16 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre. November 16 is now a global day of protest against trade union repression.
 
The main Philippines trade unions involved with Hacienda Luisita are the KMU (May First Movement) Labor Center, the Union of Agricultural Workers (UMA), and their local affiliates, the sugar mill workers union (CATLU), the United Luisita Workers Union (ULWU) and the Alliance of Farm Workers of Hacienda Luisita (AMBALA). www.kilusangmayouno.org 
 
Here is the story of their struggle.
 
Hacienda Luisita has 6,453 hectares in Tarlac Province, and its farmworkers have been entitled to land distribution since 1967. Originally a Spanish-owned tobacco farm, Hacienda Luisita was converted to sugar in the 1920s, and sold to the Cojuangco family as a combined sugar plantation and sugar mill in 1958.