[APWSLMembers 751] Protest letter on the Philippine Toyota Union case

Sat Aug 15 11:19:56 JST 2009

To:         All Friends, Comrades and Supporters in the World

From:    TOYOTA MOTOR PHILIPPINES CORPORATION WORKERS ASSOCIATION

              (TMPCWA)

              Ed Cubelo, Union President

&

SUPPORT GROUP FOR PHILIPPINE TOYOTA UNION TMPCWA IN JAPAN

              Masamichi Yamagiwa, Joint Representative

- After the decision was made to send an ILO High-Level Mission to the
Philippines -

LET’S LAUNCH THE 4TH ANTI-TOYOTA GLOBAL CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL !

15th – 25th September 2009

Dear Friends, Comrades and Supporters !

Inviting you to signing a joint Protest Letter !

It was in September 2006 that an Anti-Toyota Global Campaign was first
launched under the initiative of International Metalworkers Federation
(IMF) with the participation from 45 countries across the world
demanding the start of collective bargaining negotiation and the
reinstatement of 233 illegally dismissed workers to their original
work place as against the refusal of collective bargaining since 2000
and the mass-dismissal of 233 workers in 2001 by Toyota Motor
Philippines Corporation. We have since succeeded to this by launching
an Anti-Toyota Global Campaign in September every year calling for
participation worldwidely. This year again, we are going to conduct
the fourth anti-Toyota Global Campaign of this series for ten days
starting from the fifteenth of September.

For this purpose, we call on a variety of organizations and
individuals all over the world to conduct diversified protest actions
to Toyota during this period of time. And, so as to express the common
intent of the participants in these protest actions, we invite you to
sign up a joint Protest Letter in a format as attached to this letter.

If you are agreeable to this proposal, we would greatly appreciate
your sending your-singed Protest Letter back to us at the
below-mentioned contact address not later than the tenth of September.

Let’s make a protest to Arroyo Administration of the Philippines,
Toyota Motor Corporation and the Japanese Government !

After the 2006 Anti-Toyota Global Campaign, a “No-Union, No-Strike”
policy taken by the Arroyo Administration along with multinational
enterprises has been even more increasingly reinforced in the
Philippines, so that military pressures upon labor unions as well as
political pressures, such as extrajudicial killing, abduction and
arrest of labor union leaders have become more fierce than before. In
parallel with this situation, not only the Supreme Court of the
Philippines rendered a judgment in October 2007 ruling that the
dismissal of 233 workers by Toyota was legal, but also regarding the
case of bargaining right, the Court of Appeals of Manila deprived
TMPCWA of its collective bargaining right by issuing a judgment in
April 2008 which reversed the 2003 Supreme Court decision in favor of
TMPCWA. Nonetheless, ILO persistently continued to issue
Recommendations to the Philippine Government requesting it to start
collective bargaining negotiation and to reinstate the 233 dismissed
workers to their original work places, and at long last, at the
meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Standards
held during the International Labor Conference in June this year,
Union President Ed Cubelo of TMPCWA was allowed to deliver a speech
focusing on the matter of Toyota Philippines and it was decided to
dispatch a high-level mission to the Philippines within this year for
the purpose of investigating the problem with union certification and
extrajudicial killing.

What is important is that the willingness of the Philippine Government
to accept the ILO high-level mission to the Philippines shows its own
stance that the Philippine Government itself has come to admit it as
inevitable to amend the law and practice of the Philippines so as to
make them in line with the international labor standards. In this
regard, Toyota’s frequently outspoken view that any local matter is
left up to the local subsidiary in question as well as the attitude of
OECD National Contact Point of Japan, headed by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Japan, that the sovereignty of the country in
question must be respected for, particularly in terms of the
independence of judicial power, so as to leave the problem to the law
of the Philippines and the practice of Arroyo Administration, thus
disregarding the ILO Convention and Recommendations. But, it is now
that Arroyo Administration itself has come to be obliged to amend its
own past practice. Yet, both Toyota and the Japanese Government are
really unwilling to their attitude.

That is the reason why we should now protest to not only Arroyo
Administration but also Toyota Motor Corporation, which controls
Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation, as well as the Japanese
Government, which has great influence upon the Philippines. For the
reason as mentioned above, we call on as many as friends, comrades and
supporters of TMPCWA to join us in signing the attached Protest
Letter.

With warmest greetings in solidarity !

TOYOTA MOTOR PHILIPPINES CORPORATION

WORKERS ASSOCIATION

(TMPCWA)

Ed Cubelo

Union President

Support Group for Philippine Toyota Union TMPCWA in Japan

Masamichi Yamagiwa,

Joint Representative

Contact and message destination:

Support Group for Philippine Toyota Union TMPCWA in Japan

For the attention of Anti-Toyota Global Campaign Unit

Home page: http://www.green.dti.ne.jp/protest_toyota/

Address: 〒230-0062 　20-9-505, Toyooka-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
City, JAPAN

Phone and Fax: 045-575-1948

E-mail address: protest-toyota at list.jca.apc.org

Your message is welcome also at:

Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association (TMPCWA)

Address: 1482 Elephant St., Group 5, Fort Bonifacio, Makati City

Emails: tmpcwa1998 at yahoo.com

Website: www.tmpcwa.org

Protest Letter

To: Mr. Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation

1.     Start collective bargaining negotiation in accordance with the
2003 decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines !

Reinstate the illegally dismissed workers to their original work place
in accordance with the Recommendation of International Labor
Organization (ILO) !

Immediately withdraw criminal charge !

Stop any and all union busting against TMPCWA !

2.     Let the military forces and the police-related personnel go out
of Santa Rosa factory and do not permit their ingress and egress !

Solicit the Arroyo Administration to ensure the life security of Union
President Ed Cubelo of TMPCWA !

To: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippine Government

1.     Ensure the rights of workers to organize, to bargain
collectively and to act collectively !

Have Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation start collective bargaining
negotiation with Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers
Association (TMPCWA) in accordance with the 2003 decision of the
Supreme Court of the Philippines !

Immediately withdraw criminal charges against the members of TMPCWA !

Stop helping union busting against TMPCWA !

2.   Let the military forces and the police-related personnel out of
Santa Rosa factory and do not permit their ingress and egress !

Ensure the life security of Union President Ed Cubelo of TMPCWA !

Repent your political immunity in favor of extrajudicial killers !

To: Prime Minister of Japan

1.     Guide Toyota Motor Corporation and other multinational
enterprises to have their overseas subsidiaries observe international
labor standards !

Endeavor to have rescued Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers
Association (TMPCWA) from unfair labor practice by Toyota Motor
Corporation, on the forum of OECD National Contact Point in accordance
with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises !

2.     Solicit the Philippines Government not to help union busting
against TMPCWA, including the pressure by its military forces !

Please put in the date:                         , 2009

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