[news] Philippines: Wal-Mart Factory Workers Assaulted, Fired for Striking

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Maquila Solidarity Network

This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully picketing outside the factory gates as the police escorted scab replacement workers into the factory. According the Philippine Workers’ Assistance Centre (WAC), 22 union members were injured in the attack.

  


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