Mankayan town officials are readying a damage suit against Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for dumping asbestos-containing materials in Barangay (village) Sapid. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet (348 kms north of Manila) – Mankayan town officials are readying a damage suit against Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for dumping asbestos-containing materials in Barangay (village) Sapid.…
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Forum on Mining Denied Permit in Abra Town
A planned municipality-wide forum on mining scheduled on March 15 in Abra town was denied permission by barangay (village) officials. BY ALDWIN QUITASOL REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BANGUED, Abra (400 kms north of Manila) – The Kakailian Salakniban Tay Amin ti daga a Nagtaudan (KASTAN) criticized barangay (village) officials for denying them permission…
Lepanto Workers Dismayed Anew over Failed Talks with Management
Impoverished as they are after the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company imposed a reduced work scheme, three unions in Mankayan braved travel woes hoping to get what has been long due them. Instead, mineworkers and their wives went home empty-handed after security forces literally slammed the door of Lepanto’s Makati City office where they intended to…
Mine Workers Affected by Global Crisis
Mine workers are starting to feel the effects of the global financial crisis. The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company has begun implementing a work rotation scheme. Worse, workers could not avail of loans because the company did not remit to the proper agencies the contributions paid by the workers. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch LABOR…
Mankayan Miners Protest Work Rotation Scheme
Miners, their wives and other community members assailed Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company’s (LCMCo) new policy of reduced working days, which is essentially a work rotation scheme, in a protest rally in front of the company’s general office in Mankayan. BY CYE REYES Northern Dispatch LABOR WATCH Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of…