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10 Sep 2015

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Philippines: 3 months after Kentex fire, survivors protest govt.'s inaction

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"3 months after Kentex fire| Survivors decry Aquino’s inaction", 13 Aug 2015

Three months after the biggest factory fire casualty happened in Valenzuela City, the survivors and relatives of Kentex fire victims trooped again to the national headquarters of the Labor Department to demand its accountability to the...workplace tragedy. “Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz should have resigned by now; she should have been answering to her crimes by now,” Ammied Rada, Justice for Kentex Workers Alliance coordinator, said...The fire victims’ alliance reiterated its calls for the Office of the Ombudsman to speed up responding to the cases they have filed against some high ranking officials of the Department of Labor and Employment and Bureau of Fire Protection. When they say justice has yet to happen..., Rada explained they are...referring to the...refusal of the Aquino government to charge its high ranking officials in the Labor Department and Fire Protection...

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