By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective In May 2015, a fire gutted the Kentex slippers factory in Valenzuela City in the National Capital Region. What shocked the nation was not the extent and amount of damage to property due to the fire. It was the number of workers killed 74 and why and how they died…
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A year after Kentex factory fire, risky workplaces, contractualization persist
“The country’s justice system and the government make it very clear that they consider workers’ lives very cheap. Justice for the victims and survivors is being denied and lessons from the tragedy remain unheeded.”
‘2015 tougher for workers, unionists’ – labor NGO
Violations of workers’ and urban poor people’s civil and political rights intensified in 2015.
Kentex workers: Where is justice?
“How can we survive when we have nothing?”
Kentex survivors, families demand justice, assistance
Some survivors said there were victims who were so consumed by fire they just became part of the “debris” that were cleaned out and disposed of in sacks by a crew of “rescue” workers from the city government and firefighters.
Kentex is no aberration
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The general public, even the government, expressed shock over the death of more than 72 workers in a fire that gutted the factory of Kentex, makers of local rubber slippers Havanas. Labor Sec. Rosalinda Baldoz vowed to look into the liability of Kentex and run after CJC Manpower Services, the…
For promoting ‘killer workplaces,’ Baldoz told to resign, face probe
“Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has perpetuated a climate of impunity when it comes to compliance with occupational health and safety standards.”
Infamous Blaze*: On Kentex workers and the struggle of labor
BLOODRUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO This is no way to die. That was my initial reaction upon reading the news on a factory fire that killed 72 people who made rubber slippers for a living. This is among the worst documented fires in contemporary times in terms of casualties. In 2001, fire gutted a budget hotel…