The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is hopeful that the Tariff Commission will still appreciate its data and evidence presented on the imposition of safeguard duty on imported cars and light commercial vehicles to protect the domestic motor vehicle manufacturing sector and save jobs. Trade...
The Philippine Metalworkers’ Alliance (PMA), a workers’ union comprised of thousands of workers from the steel, metal and electronics industries, yesterday stressed that workers in the automotive industry are legitimate stakeholders in the automobile industry as they represent workers and their...
Legal teams from the country’s top law firms are ganging up on domestic labor union Philippine Metalworkers Alliance (PMA) stressing the workers are not domestic automotive manufacturers and therefore have no authority and personality to represent the local industry in the safeguard measure case...
Workers today slammed automotive firms in the country, short of calling them “selfish” and questioning their "loyalty", for looking after their own business interest but disregarding the industry’s development and their employees. In a strongly-worded statement, the Philippine...
Domestic automotive parts manufacturers and workers stood behind the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) decision to impose provisional safeguard measure on imported completely built-up (CBU) cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) as a step that will arrest further decline in local auto...
The Philippine Metalworkers Alliance (PMA), a union of automotive, electronics, steel and iron steel workers, has urged the government to mandate agencies to purchase locally manufactured vehicles and raise local component requirement to 100 percent from 40 percent and control entry of imported...
To benefit laid off auto workers A group of automotive workers has asked the government to reallocate a portion of the multi-billion worth of tax perks granted to participants in the tax incentive-driven Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) Program as part of social amelioration...
