Main Story: Inaction on oil price hikes, a ‘huge case of corruption’ – Alliance Against Oil Price Increases By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – ‘While we are drowning in misery, they are swimming in luxury… We are like in a FPJ movie, we are being badly beaten...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the church celebrated the feast of St. Joseph the Worker last week in a conference with various workers’ groups in the National Capital Region. According to its conveners, this regional conference is a fruit of the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
In Congress there are 14 proposals and three resolutions calling for the review or scrapping altogether of the Oil Deregulation Law and Value-Added Tax on oil products.
Sidebar: Aquino’s VAT windfall, defense of oil firms’ ‘greed’ questioned
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Because of the almost weekly increase in oil prices, there is a growing consensus among some lawmakers, peoples’ organizations and various consumers’ advocates that the most immediate relief the Aquino government can give is...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Even employers in other regions have reportedly told the House labor committee they can afford the said wage hike.
Sidebar: Malacañang told: Economy has enough profits to support wage hike
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Finally, after more than a decade, the proposed legislated wage hike bill in Congress has seemingly got a promised approval of the House labor committee. The pending House Bill 375 in Congress is seeking to legislate a P125...
By MARYA SALAMAT
When the government and the oil firms heard of the impending protests against oil price hikes early this week, they changed their tune about an impending oil price hike also this week.
Sidebar: Ordinary citizens express disgust over oil price hikes
“Noynoying” or do-nothing Aquino ridiculed at the protest caravan (Photo by Marya Salamat)
Bicolanos strike against oil overpricing ahead of Mar 15 nationwide consumers’ protests (Photo courtesy of Arkibong Bayan)
By MARYA SALAMAT
By denying public health workers their legally-mandated benefits, the Aquino government has practically reduced their monthly take-home pay.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Some 60 members of employees’ union in HSBC held two sessions of prayer-protests this week in two branches, one at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig and another at the iHUB Building Northgate Alabang in Muntinlupa. The...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – On the fourth day of the strike of 180 contractual janitors of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), the labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno dared the labor department to compel the PUP administration to absorb the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Even if Aquino manages to get a bigger share in the mining firms’ declared profits, it would be nothing compared to the mining firms' profits and worth of 'plundered' wealth.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The long journey of Rep. Iggy Arroyo’s body from London to Manila and then to Negros had turned more telenovela-like than the Corona impeachment trial, as the media avidly followed the two women, or the “two camps,” who...
State university contractual workers launch strike, demand reinstatement (Photos by SHEILETTE UNTALAN)
By MARYA SALAMAT
The People’s Mining bill embodies the people’s aspirations on how mining could benefit the people.
Sidebar: John Arcilla, actor, environmentalist attends Peoples’ Mining Conference
Perhaps the envy of most actors for landing a role in Hollywood film Bourne Legacy, John Arcilla is not your usual glamour boy; he is an environmentalist who always tries to do his share in protecting the environment. By MARYA...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Can their semantics circumvent the Constitutional ban on permanent stationing of US troops?
Oil firms, Aquino warned of nationwide protests vs oil price hikes (Photos by MARYA SALAMAT)
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Ongoing until Feb 28 is an art exhibit that seeks to visualize the state of impunity in the Philippines. Nothing has changed in “the brazenness in the commission of human rights violations in the country,” said the End...
A community of readers and supporters that help us sustain our operations through microdonations for as low as $1.
