By MARYA SALAMAT
A foreign investment-led, export-led growth economic model never led to genuine, sustainable development nor to the betterment of the living and working conditions of the country's working population.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Peasants from haciendas in Luzon knocked on Aquino's Times St residence with a letter outlining farmers' suggestions on how Aquino could deliver his promised change, starting with real improvement in agriculture.
By MARYA SALAMAT
When new US Ambassador Harry K. Thomas arrived in the country, his first order of business appeared to be to visit presumptive-president Sen. Noynoy Aquino for a courtesy call and joint briefing.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“With the many serious problems in the whole election process, it is only through the efforts of the people – the sacrifices made by the public school teachers and the resilience of voters – that the election was made possible,” said the Peoples' International Observers' Mission.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Before profusely patting itself on the back, the Comelec first has to identify and account for the mess created by its lack of preparedness to be able to remedy the problems for the next automated elections.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The snail's pace in the voting process would create more problems than just the long lines voters have to endure.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Buried beneath the mudslinging are the platforms or lack of it and position on issues of the presidential candidates. Bulatlat based the following report on the stand of the different presidential candidates from the analysis and criteria produced by Pagbabago!
By MARYA SALAMAT
There is blood in your coffee - This aptly describes Nescafe and other Nestle products after the series of violent attacks on the Nestle workers' picket line, the death of 10 striking workers due to poverty and illnesses, and the political killing of Diosdado Fortuna, union president. And yet, eight years later, the management still refuses to budge, despite a Supreme Court ruling favoring the workers.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Previous revisions in the Labor Code have served to deprive workers of their hard-won rights. Now, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines are pushing for more.
By MARYA SALAMAT
After two decades of falling real wages, with the last two years bereft of even a paltry wage increase despite the crisis and unmitigated price increases, the progressive labor front has once again raised the demand to legislate a P125 nationwide wage hike.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — A caravan of less than a hundred public utility vehicles composed mainly of FX taxis and jeepneys drove to Malacañang April 19 to condemn the government’s “deafening silence on oil price hikes. They demanded the removal of...
By MARYA SALAMAT
One of the Philippines’ leading and most profitable broadcasting network, which claims to regard everybody as “kapamilya”, disowns its employees on the grounds that they are working for another entity, ABS-CBN IJM.
(Bulatlat.com) The Free the 43 Health Workers Now! alliance challenged a lower court’s resolve in implementing its April 7 order to transfer the 38 health workers from camp Capinpin in Rizal to Camp Crame in Quezon City. The Regional Trial Court in Morong should...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The first ever automated elections in the country is making people wary because the Comelec's preparations are perceived to be hurried, its credibility has been put into question ever since the 2004 elections, and more importantly, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seems to be maneuvering to keep itself in power.
By MARYA SALAMAT
With the drought and skyrocketing prices, workers are facing a worse situation bordering on near-death hunger, said the KMU.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers from Dole Philippines’s union have been staging weekly protests to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement with its workers.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
A hundred doctors and medical professors on mass leave in UP-PGH (University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital), supported by UP and PGH employees, defied last Monday a memo issued by the ‘de-facto’ PGH director Dr. Enrique Domingo and a warning raised by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairman Francisco T. Duque III against their joining “disruptive” protest actions and taking part in mass leaves.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The crisis at the Philippine General Hospital worsened last week as 75 of the hospital's topnotch and highly qualified doctors and medical professors went on mass leave starting March 29 to express “anger and dismay over the oppression and dubious removal from office” of the hospital's director, Dr. Jose Gonzales. They said, however, that they would still respond to emergency or life-threatening cases.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Critics of the new ID system say "this multimillion project will be another campaign kitty for the Arroyo administration and also an avenue to skirt the unconstitutionality of the National ID System which was already rejected by the Supreme Court during the Ramos regime."
By MARYA SALAMAT
The 20 were arrested in 2007, after they went on strike while employed at Karnation Industries Inc (Pansy Accessories), a maker of home decor and accessories. They complained about low salaries and benefits.
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