The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said in a press release yesterday that Laurence Kevin Fishman, the American businessman who deserted and defrauded his Filipino employees of some P50 million in wages, should be forever banned from re-entering the Philippines.
The TUCP urged the Bureau of Immigration to immediately tag and blacklist Fishman as “an undesirable alien.”
Fishman hastily left the country without notice on Aug. 25 and abandoned his firm, Sta. Mesa, Manila-based Skytech International Dental Laboratories Inc., leaving his 416 workers with unpaid salaries and separation benefits, the press release said.
The government should find ways to run after Fishman and compel him to settle his unpaid obligations to his workers, TUCP secretary-general and former Senator Ernesto Herrera said in the press release.
Herrera said that “While we welcome foreign investors who build factories here that create badly needed jobs, the government should not take lightly any violations of our labor laws and abuses against our workers.”
Regulators should ban all products of Skytech’s parent firm, Trident Dental Laboratories, from entering the country, he added. He also urged the Philippine Dental Association to boycott Trident products.
Before it closed shop, Skytech fabricated artificial teeth and associated parts for dental clinics and other overseas clients. Herrera said Skytech’s parent firm, Hawthorne, California-based Trident Labs Inc., doing business as Trident Dental Laboratories, and with facilities in China and Vietnam, “appears to remain fully operational.”
Trident’s website is still running, and Fishman is still there as “CEO/owner,” with his welcome message to prospective clients and customers, Herrera said. The Department of Labor and Employment is trying to help the displaced Skytech workers, the press release said.* –Daily Visayan Star
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
