MANILA, Philippines — “Exhibit A” was labor leader Joel Ascutia’s scars from gunshot wounds he sustained on July 13 during a strike by public transportation drivers in Bicol.
Panel members of a high-level International Labor Organization (ILO) fact-finding mission were “shocked” during the hearing they conducted on Wednesday night, Elmer Labog, chair of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), told the Philippine Daily Inquirer Thursday.