RMN employees dismayed with management’s refusal to grant benefits, refusal to negotiate

Posted on Jul 7, 2012 in * News & Features, Davao City, Davao Region, Featured Articles, Mindanao, Philippines, World | 0 comments

“What we’ve asked was very modest, and yet the management was too stingy to give in to the employees’ rightful demands,” Rey Hernan Fabe, President, RMN Davao Employees Union

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Dismayed journalists and workers of the top rating Radio Mindanao Network DXDC radio station here held a picket rally to denounce the company’s failure to negotiate with them and to grant a package of benefits contained in a memorandum of agreement.

The group is also poised to hold a crippling strike should the management continue to ignore their demands.

“What we’ve asked was very modest, and yet the management was too stingy to give in to the employees’ rightful demands,” Rey Hernan Fabe, RMN reporter and also president of the RMN Davao Employees Union (RDEU), told Davao Today.

Fabe said on Wednesday, after a number of postponed meetings, lawyer Cubillo and Bong Bastes, one of RMN’s area managers in Mindanao finally met with them at the National Conciliation and Mediation Board.

“Our almost 10-hour talk was a failure.  The management panel wants us to lift our Notice of Strike and review the provisions we already agreed last year.  What they did was an outright non-implementation of our agreement,” a dismayed Fabe said.

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Coutesy of Davao Today