Karapatan condemns recent violent dispersal, arrest of NutriAsia workers, supporters and journalists

“We are enraged by the violent dispersal of workers who have already been victimized by the company’s unfair labor practices. We likewise condemn NutriAsia, its security personnel and the Philippine National Police in Bulacan for this brutality. The NutriAsia management even had the audacity to claim in a statement that a gunshot was fired from the ranks of the workers when evidence and testimonies attest that a mass was ongoing prior to the dispersal. NutriAsia has the audacity to call for compliance to the rule of law when it has primarily violated the rights of workers, ignored labor laws and general labor standards,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay on the violent dispersal on the afternoon of July 30, 2018, and NutriAsia’s statement thereafter.

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