The Labor Union Movement in the Iligan Bay Area: Processes and Outcomes

Abstract

The changing character of labor unionism in the Iligan Bay area may be ulled from a diachrony of the major events occurring over a period of more than four decades from the establishment of the first union in the area up to ihe early 1990s. This article offers a reconstruction of the labor union formation processes and description of the significant outcomes at various epochs. From their formative stage in the 1960s, the labor unions were subjected to grave state repression in the 1970s. Mostly as members of federations, they were engaged in mass actions in the 1980s. They were compelled to rethink their strategies in light of changing industrial and labor policies in the early In all, one sees how the labor union movement in the Iligan Bay area had been fractious in nature.