By MARYA SALAMAT
“It is as clear as day,” declared Terry Ridon, chairman of League of Filipino Students, “that it is only when US interests are served shall it extend assistance to its semi-colony.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
“I was once a laborer, too. I have worked at various jobs just to be able to feed my family. I know how it is to work hard and to subsist on meager wages.” – Rep. Manny Pacquiao
By MARYA SALAMAT
Tony Pascual of NAFLU-KMU warned all labor groups in the country to beware of the employers’ renewed calls for tripartism, a “loaded dice that seeks to favour the capitalists in every roll”.
Sidebar: Dolefil hikes profits by repressing progressive union, said a labor federation
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: Veteran labor federation slammed ECOP’s calls for tripartism as dangerous and deceptive The management of Dole Philippines Inc. recently inked a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the workers union in Dole’s...
A video documentary review By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com The “Politics of US Occupation” by Richard Concepcion, a thesis for his Masteral in Fine Arts at the American University School of Communication last year, is a video-documentary that begins and ends with a...
By MARYA SALAMAT
A 2008 study of the Consumers Action for Empowerment and the Health Action Information Network concluded that a single course of antibiotics amounts to three days’ worth of wages; not much has improved since then.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The media blitz being done by Nestlé could no more hide its continued violation of the Supreme Court decisions and other laws in the Philippines so it could continue to deny justice to its workers who are now into their ninth year of strike.” – KMU
By MARYA SALAMAT
“What is happening in Mustad is a textbook case of illegal closure...of capitalists drastically undertaking illegal and anti-worker measures because they are confident the Aquino government won’t lift a finger to harm them,” said Leandro “Ka Doods” Gerodias, KMU deputy secretary-general and president of the Alliance of Democratic Labor Organizations (ADLO).
The labor center KMU which Ka Bel led for years said their group's vow to advance the people’s struggle for their basic rights and for a significant wage hike is, in their belief, the highest tribute they can give Ka Bel. (Text by MARYA SALAMAT ; Photos by RANDY EVANGELISTA / Bulatlat.com)
By MARYA SALAMAT
Given the growing number of lawmakers supporting the legislation of a substantial wage hike, workers remembering Ka Bel today are hoping that finally, the bill which he first authored and filed may be enacted at last.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Controversial TV host Willie Revillame returned big time on primetime TV in a revamped variety and game show with many firsts, promises and thanks to its viewers and supporters. Without delving in detail into the issue that...
PRESS RELEASE 10 May 2011 NEGROS -- The Revolutionary movement in Negros will do all it can to implement the policy of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Revolutionary Government of the People for the total ban of destructive mining explorations and...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The number one threat to Filipino health and job security is the US-Aquino Regime,” whose PPPs “result in privatization, in the abandonment of health as a right of the people, and in denying health workers decent wages and jobs.” – Health Alliance for Democracy.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The granted P22 emergency COLA won’t give workers and their families “real immediate relief amid the rising prices of basic goods and services, especially petroleum products.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
In the ECOP national conference, Aquino said his government has “no intention of asking Congress to legislate an across-the-board increase in wages.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
There are 214,596 registered public utility jeepneys in the country, but when the Aquino Government’s Pantawid Pasada program was finally begun first week of May, only 3,000 fuel cards loaded with P1,050 ($34.95) each had been prepared for distribution by the government.
Workers and activists: Under the sun
By MARYA SALAMAT
Given their dim view of the current Philippine government, the protesters called on the people to join in changing "this kind of government and this rotten system."
By MARYA SALAMAT
Although most came from firms belonging to the top 500 corporations, with some being subsidiaries of top global corporations, the unionists complained also of low wages and threats to their job security.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The labor center KMU accused the Aquino government of engaging in a “propaganda offensive against calls for a substantial wage hike, amid growing sentiment in favor of this wage hike.”
Labor Groups Prepare Mass Actions for May 1 “and Beyond”
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