Contractual workers up in arms vs mining firm

THE incoming administration of President-elect President Rodrigo Duterte will have its first acid test soon in its declared war on illegal contractualization and destructive mining against one of the biggest and most influential mining companies in Palawan province in western Philippines.

Alan Tanjusay, policy advocacy officer of the Associated Labor Union (ALU) and spokesman for the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)-Nagkakaisa disclosed on Thursday that the mining firm, Citinickel Mines Development Corp. (Citinickel), is owned by one of the contributors to the presidential campaign of outgoing President Benigno Aquino 3rd in 2010 and also to that of Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd in the just concluded May 9 polls.