Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik-KMU) Incident date Labour rights group
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Philipino labor federation Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik-KMU) were victim of red-tagging by the military and police in Calamba, the Philippines. Pamantik-KMU denounced assertions by the police and military that they were front organizations of the outlawed CPP-NPA Communist rebellion. In addition, according to Pamantik-KMU, two local Coca-Cola worker representatives have been responsible for the spate of harassments against Coca-Cola workers, including house-to-house visits by police officers to force them to âsurrenderâ during a surrender ceremony staged by the military, where they claimed that most of the participants were alleged former members of the revolutionary New Peopleâs Army in Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba, Laguna. The 16 âsurrendereesâ were reportedly Coca-Cola employees who were forcibly brought