"Shoemart’s malls in Metro Manila are tightly-guarded by private security guards and police teams while striking workers – mostly women – maintain their picketlines as their strike enters its fourth month. The same issues that provoked SM workers to go on strike thrice in the past are at stake in the current one, indicating continued workers’ dissatisfaction."
Although I feel compassion for the strikers, it's hard to shake off that feeling that some of these labor unions are nothing else but extortion and blackmail racketeers. These workers are just pawns in my opinion.
