July 21, 2009To:

All Friends, Comrades and Supporters in the WorldFrom:

TOYOTA MOTOR PHILIPPINES CORPORATION WORKERS ASSOCIATION(TMPCWA)
Ed Cubelo, Union President&SUPPORT GROUP FOR PHILIPPINE TOYOTA UNION TMPCWA IN JAPANMasamichi Yamagiwa, Joint Representative- After the decision was made to send an ILO High-Level Mission to the Philippines LET’S LAUNCH THE 4TH ANTI-TOYOTA GLOBAL CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL !
15th – 25th September 2009

Dear Friends, Comrades and Supporters !
Inviting you to signing a joint Protest Letter !
It was in September 2006 that an Anti-Toyota Global Campaign was first launchedunder the initiative of International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) with theparticipation from 45 countries across the world demanding the start of collective
bargaining negotiation and the reinstatement of 233 illegally dismissed workers to their
original work place as against the refusal of collective bargaining since 2000 and themass-dismissal of 233 workers in 2001 by Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation. We
have since succeeded to this by launching an Anti-Toyota Global Campaign in
September every year calling for participation worldwidely. This year again, we aregoing to conduct the fourth anti-Toyota Global Campaign of this series for ten days
starting from the fifteenth of September.
For this purpose, we call on a variety of organizations and individuals all over the world
to conduct diversified protest actions to Toyota during this period of time. And, so as toexpress the common intent of the participants in these protest actions, we invite you tosign up a joint Protest Letter in a format as attached to this letter.
If you are agreeable to this proposal, we would greatly appreciate your sending
your-singed Protest Letter back to us at the below-mentioned contact address not later1

than the tenth of September.
Let’s make a protest to Arroyo Administration of the Philippines, Toyota Motor
Corporation and the Japanese Government !
After the 2006 Anti-Toyota Global Campaign, a “No-Union, No-Strike” policy taken by
the Arroyo Administration along with multinational enterprises has been even moreincreasingly reinforced in the Philippines, so that military pressures upon labor unions
as well as political pressures, such as extrajudicial killing, abduction and arrest of labor
union leaders have become more fierce than before. In parallel with this situation, notonly the Supreme Court of the Philippines rendered a judgment in October 2007 rulingthat the dismissal of 233 workers by Toyota was legal, but also regarding the case of
bargaining right, the Court of Appeals of Manila deprived TMPCWA of its collective
bargaining right by issuing a judgment in April 2008 which reversed the 2003 Supreme
Court decision in favor of TMPCWA. Nonetheless, ILO persistently continued to issue
Recommendations to the Philippine Government requesting it to start collective
bargaining negotiation and to reinstate the 233 dismissed workers to their original
work places, and at long last, at the meeting of the Committee of Experts on theApplication of Standards held during the International Labor Conference in June thisyear, Union President Ed Cubelo of TMPCWA was allowed to deliver a speech focusing
on the matter of Toyota Philippines and it was decided to dispatch a high-level mission
to the Philippines within this year for the purpose of investigating the problem with
union certification and extrajudicial killing.
What is important is that the willingness of the Philippine Government to accept theILO high-level mission to the Philippines shows its own stance that the Philippine
Government itself has come to admit it as inevitable to amend the law and practice of
the Philippines so as to make them in line with the international labor standards. In
this regard, Toyota’s frequently outspoken view that any local matter is left up to thelocal subsidiary in question as well as the attitude of OECD National Contact Point ofJapan, headed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, that the sovereignty of thecountry in question must be respected for, particularly in terms of the independence ofjudicial power, so as to leave the problem to the law of the Philippines and the practiceof Arroyo Administration, thus disregarding the ILO Convention and Recommendations.
But, it is now that Arroyo Administration itself has come to be obliged to amend its own
past practice. Yet, both Toyota and the Japanese Government are really unwilling totheir attitude.
That is the reason why we should now protest to not only Arroyo Administration but2

also Toyota Motor Corporation, which controls Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation, as
well as the Japanese Government, which has great influence upon the Philippines. For
the reason as mentioned above, we call on as many as friends, comrades and supportersof TMPCWA to join us in signing the attached Protest Letter.
With warmest greetings in solidarity !

TOYOTA MOTOR PHILIPPINES CORPORATIONWORKERS ASSOCIATION(TMPCWA)

Ed Cubelo
Union President

Support Group for Philippine Toyota Union TMPCWA in Japan

Masamichi Yamagiwa,
Joint Representative

Contact and message destination:
Support Group for Philippine Toyota Union TMPCWA in JapanFor the attention of Anti-Toyota Global Campaign Unit
Home page: http://www.green.dti.ne.jp/protest_toyota/Address: 〒230-0062

20-9-505, Toyooka-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama City, JAPAN

Phone and Fax: 045-575-1948
E-mail address: protest-toyota@list.jca.apc.org

3Your message is welcome also at:
Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association (TMPCWA)
Address: 1482 Elephant St., Group 5, Fort Bonifacio, Makati City
Emails: tmpcwa1998@yahoo.com
Website: www.tmpcwa.org

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