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spacer.gif   News: JPEPA LOSSES TO RP ECONOMY GO BEYOND MONETARY COST
Published Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 07:28 PM
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Independent think-tank IBON Foundation reacted to Senator Mar Roxas�s statement that he would advocate for the ratification of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

Sen. Roxas said yesterday although there was not much gain inherent in the free-trade pact, "the loss is definitely calculable". But IBON research head Sonny Africa said that the loss to the local economy of JPEPA goes beyond what can immediately be computed in monetary terms to affect the country's future economic development.

Even as IBON estimates annual revenue losses at P10.6 billion because of tariff removals under JPEPA, Africa said that the bigger loss from the free trade pact is ultimately its effect on the country's economic sovereignty and its right to impose policies to protect its industries and promote its long-term economic development.

For example, the JPEPA has investment provisions that require the Philippine government to place Japanese investors on equal footing with their local counterparts while preventing the country from imposing policies to favor Filipino entrepreneurs and enterprises. It also prohibits the government from imposing such development measures as requiring Japanese investors to hire a given level of Filipino nationals, transfer technologies or production processes to local companies, or achieve a certain level of local content in products it manufactures or subcontracts in the Philippines.

The effect of these provisions can not be readily computed monetarily, but the loss to the domestic economy is very real and concrete, Africa said, in terms of lost livelihoods and local firms closed. Just as big a loss will be the continued and chronic backwardness of the Philippines' agricultural and industrial sectors, which would deny tens of millions of Filipinos decent work and force them to risk their lives abroad as overseas workers. �These losses are inherent in the JPEPA,� he said.

Africa said that senators considering ratification of the controversial pact should ultimately look not just at the immediate losses the JPEPA will bring but also its future legacy: the destruction of the people's welfare and any hope of the country's future development. (end)

IBON Foundation, Inc. is an independent development institution established in 1978 that provides research, education, publications, information work and advocacy support on socioeconomic issues.



 
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spacer.gif   Letters: Solidarity request from USAS
Published Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:10 AM
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Dear friends,

I hope this finds you well. I write to ask for your help in ensuring that baseball cap workers for the New Era Cap Company here in the United States are able to exercise their right to organize. As described below, we would like to ask your organization to add its name to a letter that USAS will be sending to the Fair Labor Association about this case.

We have been working cosely with workers at plants owned by New Era in the south of the United States, in the state of Alabama. These workers are trying to organize a union to win dignified treatmment, decent wages, and to stop racial discrimination against workers in the factory. The company has responded by waging an aggressive union busting campaign in which it has called union organizers liars and claimed that unions do nothing but take workers' dues from their paychecks. To illustrate some of their tactics, I am attaching a letter that New Era sent to the workforce of one of its factories.

New Era is also a member of the Fair Labor Assocation (FLA). Its head of human resources, Tim Freer, sits on the Executeive Board of the FLA as a representative of New Era. Workers have told us that Mr. Freer personally participated in the anti-union campaign by running a series of anti-union meetings which workers were required to attend.

The purpose of the letter we are asking you to sign is to encourage the FLA to take leadership on this issue. Basically, we want them to clearly state that they will not allow one of their member companies to run anti-union campaings in factories that they own and operate themselves and demand that New Era stop its union-busting campaign at its plant in Jackson, Alabama.

It would be greatly appreciated if your organization could sign on to this letter, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks so much,

Zack

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spacer.gif   Women are not �human capital� in globalisation
Published Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 07:26 PM
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Malaysiakini,
By Soon Li Tsin
Nov 24, 06 3:16pm

Women workers should not be labelled as �human capital� in this era of globalisation because they are not 'commodity', said Tenaganita director Irene Fernandez at a regional conference today.

�We are not commodity�
Reforms for Asian govts
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Published Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 02:30 AM
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LIST OF CAW PUBLICATIONS

Asian Women Workers Newsletter, a quarterly publication with reports o­n the lives and struggles of Asian women workers.

Quarterly every year

Annual subscription:

Baht 300 Thailand , US$25 Asia, US$50 outside

Reclaiming Dignity Struggles of Local Domestic Workers in Asia 2004

200 Baht , 10 $ in Asia , 20 $ outside

Women�s Lives In A Balance Report of South Asian Workshop o­n Legal Strategies of women workers� Organizations.

2003

100 Baht , 10 $ in Asia , 20 $ outside

Report of Mekong Workshop to Combat Sexual Harassment at Work

2003

100 Baht , 10 $ in Asia, 20 $ outside

Activities against Women's Unemployment & the Results in Korea- Action Center For Women's Unemployment Of KWWAU

2003

100 Baht , 10 $ in Asia , 20 $ outside

Home based workers in Indonesia � a survey report

By Humanika Working Group & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report, 500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single, 8 $ for pack

Part-time Workers in Japan � full work, half pay, no benefits

By Michiko Hiroki, Asian Women Workers� Center (Japan) & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report, 500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single , 8 $ for pack

Issues faced by women in the Informal Agricultural Sector in Sri Lanka and Difficulties in Organizing them

By Community Education Centre (CEC), Sri Lanka & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report, 500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single, 8 $ for pack

An Exploratory Study of Women Workers in the Informal Sector in Taiwan - their Struggles within the Intersection of Work, Family and Society

By Solidarity Front for Women Workers (SFWW), Taipei, Chung Lum Social Welfare Community Center, Kaoshiung, Ludi Community Univeristy, Taipei & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report , 500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single, 8 $ for pack

The Situation and Case Study of Informal Labour in Bangkok: The Aftermath of the Economic Crisis

By Kannikar Angsuthanasombat, Bharat Na Nakhorn, Phan Wanabriboon & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report, 500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single , 8 $ for pack

Conditions of Women Street Vendors in Pakistan- A Survey

By Aurat Foundation & CAW

(Part of a Research Series o­n Informal Sector)

2002

100 Baht for single report ,500 Baht for pack (or 75 baht per copy if ordered more than o­ne report)

10 $ single, 8 $ for pack

Moving Mountains - Documentation of 25 years� of CAW

2002

300 Baht Thailand , US$ 10 in Asia , US$ 20 outside Asia

Silk and Iron- Video

2002

600 Baht Thailand , US$ 20 (Asia), US$ 40 (Others )

"Our Voices will be Heard"- Report of the Regional Workshop o­n Women Workers in Informal Work

2002

100 Baht , 10 US$ elsewhere

Action Against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific

CAW & ILO

2001

200 Baht , 10 $ in Asia, 20 $ outside Asia

Globalization and Informalization. CAW, KWWAU & WWW

2000

200 Baht , 10 $ in Asia, 20 $ outside Asia

Uniting Voices: Asian Women Workers Search for recognition in the Global marketplace A compilation for research studies o­n women workers in Asia

2000

200 Baht , 10 $ in Asia , 20 $ outside Asia

Dolls and Dusts Manual

2000

400 Baht Thailand , US$15 ( Asia) , US$ 30 (Others)

Dolls and Dust Video- A film o­n the impact of industrial restructuring o­n women workers in Sri Lanka, South Korea and Thailand

The video has been translated to Sinhala, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Putonghua Chinese, Bahasa, Bengali, Tagalog languages

1998

600 Baht Thailand , US$ 20 (Asia), US$ 40 (Others )

 




 
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