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News in Pictures: Dismissed LRT Employees Stage Protest Against Government ‘Double Standard’

News in Pictures: Dismissed LRT Employees Stage Protest Against Government ‘Double Standard’


MANILA -- LRT employees who were dismissed from work for having launched a crippling strike nearly a decade ago joined the RILES Network in condemning the “continued injustice and poverty in the supposedly righteous path of the Aquino government.” The workers protested in front of the offices of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Tuesday -- with some of them getting their heads shaved -- a few hours before a scheduled consultation with DOTC’s assistant secretary for administrative and legal affairs Raquel Desiderio. (Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)

| Jan 19, 2011

With Budget Cuts, ‘Corporatization’ of Health Care, Aquino Backs Out of ‘Health for All’ Promise

With Budget Cuts, ‘Corporatization’ of Health Care, Aquino Backs Out of ‘Health for All’ Promise

By MARYA SALAMAT
“Health is about people, not profits. The provision of health services should never be contingent on the patient’s ability to pay or the public hospital’s capacity to generate its own income. The provision of health services should be guaranteed by government to its people." –- Health Alliance for Democracy

| Dec 31, 2010

Aquino’s Assumption of Jurisdiction Over PAL Dispute: A Christmas Gift to Workers or a Delaying Tactic?

Aquino’s Assumption of Jurisdiction Over PAL Dispute: A Christmas Gift to Workers or a Delaying Tactic?

By MARYA SALAMAT
“The real test of whether Aquino’s assumption of jurisdiction order is pro-worker or pro-Lucio Tan lies in his future decision on Tan’s contractualization through mass layoffs and outsourcing scheme,” said Joselito Ustarez, vice-chairman of KMU.

| Dec 18, 2010

Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

By MARYA SALAMAT
"The TRB cannot even tell us how the toll rates were computed. What was the basis for the computation of the toll rates? These questions must be answered first before they raise the toll fees,” said Northern Samar governor Paul Daza, co-convenor of the TUTOL-SLEX.

| Dec 18, 2010

Kuliglig, Pedicab Drivers’ Protest Highlights Lack in Jobs, Mass Transport

Kuliglig, Pedicab Drivers’ Protest Highlights Lack in Jobs, Mass Transport

By MARYA SALAMAT
ALNAPEDKU, the group of kuliglig drivers who protested on Dec. 2, believes that the solution to the kuliglig problem is not an outright ban but regulation. The group is asking the government to recognize them formally as a mode of transport, since social practice has granted them that for years already.

Sidebar: Kuliglig Drivers Condemn Violent Dispersal by Police, Gain Lawmakers’ Support

| Dec 4, 2010

PAL Workers Wonder if Aquino Is Really Concerned About Their Plight

PAL Workers Wonder if Aquino Is Really Concerned About Their Plight

By MARYA SALAMAT
‘Tis the Christmas season and anxious workers at Philippine Airlines are wondering if there is cause for hope that Aquino will reverse the airline’s mass layoffs and contractualization scheme, or is the president merely helping Lucio Tan to buy time, until the peak season -- and the optimum time for a workers’ strike -- is over?

| Nov 27, 2010

Child Rights Advocates Bewail Distortion of Child Protection Principles for Counter-Insurgency

Child Rights Advocates Bewail Distortion of Child Protection Principles for Counter-Insurgency

By MARYA SALAMAT
Children have been suffering the brunt of military operations along with their elders, but whereas before they were considered as “collateral damages,” since 2007, most children being encountered by the military in operations are being labeled as “child combatants.”

| Nov 20, 2010

Government Health Workers Form Alliance to Fight for Wage Hike

Government Health Workers Form Alliance to Fight for Wage Hike

By MARYA SALAMAT
Like many Filipinos, the leaders of various health workers and health professionals in the public health sector said they dream of having a decent house, enrolling their children in quality schools, and providing for their family's basic needs like food, clothing and recreation. But sadly, they could not make both ends meet.

Sidebar: Doctors’ Association Seeks Amendments to Laws to Further Code of Ethics

| Nov 13, 2010

Global Network Urges Electronics Supply Chain to Respect Workers’ Rights

Global Network Urges Electronics Supply Chain to Respect Workers’ Rights

By MARYA SALAMAT
While owners of big name brands ranging from Apple to Nokia to HP and JVC Kenwood roost in their headquarters in the US or Europe and try to outdo each other in bragging about their latest research and development, their supply chain around the world is comprised of different outsourcing companies vying for the contract to manufacture their required parts at the lowest production costs possible.

| Nov 13, 2010

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