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The Philippine Metalworkers' Alliance (PMA) is a trade union federation of metal workers in the Philippines. This includes workers in the automotive, electrical and electronics, iron, steel and shipbuilding sectors.
Unions exist to represent the interests of workers, who form the membership. Under US labor law, the National Labor Relations Act 1935 is the primary statute which gives US unions rights.
The workers were fired due to their union functions during negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. Factory owners claimed the workers were fired after refusing to work on April 9, while workers said they had not been paid for two months. [2] IndustriALL and its affiliated unions in the Philippines condemned the dismissals.
The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (SMWIA) was a trade union of skilled metal workers who perform architectural sheet metal work, fabricate and install heating and air conditioning work, shipbuilding, appliance construction, heater and boiler construction, precision and specialty parts manufacture, and a variety of other jobs involving sheet metal.
Metal and Electrical Workers' Union of South Africa; Metal Polishers', Buffers', Platers' and Allied Workers' International Union; Metal Production and Manufacturing Workers' Union; Metal Trades Department, AFL–CIO; Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines; Metal-Textile Union; Metalworkers' Federation; Metalworkers' Union; Metea (trade union)
The Confederation of Filipino Workers (CFW) is a national trade union federation in the Philippines. It was founded 15 April 1986, and has a dues-paying membership of around 50,000. It is the only federation with the most number of unions in the export processing zones, especially in Mariveles, Bataan.
In 1991, the union absorbed the Pattern Makers' League of North America. [16] The Transportation Communications International Union (TCU) merged with the IAM, after a TCU member vote in July 2005. [17] On September 7, 2008, the union began a 57-day strike against Boeing over issues with outsourcing, job security, pay and benefits. [18]
By 1957 its headquarters were Janska 100, Prague 1, Czechoslovakia where it again shared the address with the TUIs of Transport Workers, Miners and Teachers [8] [9] By 1978 it moved to BP158 Moscow K9, Soviet Union, [10] an address it would keep until at least 1991.