PRESS RELEASE March 14, 2010 Self-proclaimed anti-communist mongerer Jovito Palparan should stop acting like a scorned woman blabbering unfounded accusations repeatedly against genuine partylist groups and focused his propaganda work on his achievements in...
PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Farmers from Bgy. Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan protested today at San Miguel Corp. main office in Ortigas Center opposing Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco's take-over of the MRT 7 project. Tungkong Mangga is the site of the...
PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Davao City ---- The Katribu Partylist denounced the arrest and detention for more than 36 hours of 13 farmers--mostly, Lumads--by soldiers of the 25th Infantry Battallion-10th Infantry Division in Monkayo town, Compostela Valley. The...
12 March 2010 PRESS RELEASE One week after ending their camp-out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers from the Annasban Group of Companies today trooped back to picket at the agency’s doorsteps,...
NEWS RELEASE March 7, 2010 A women-dominated union in a German-owned denture factory is decrying the company’s inhumane rules and regulations which penalizes “use of obscene languange,” “loitering” and “concealment of contagious disease” via dismissal of workers....
PRESS STATEMENT 6 March 2010 Government failure to permanently ban abusive recruitment agencies means that many more OFWs will suffer what the Annasban caregivers went through. As fellow OFWs celebrate the victory gained by Annasban OFWs who staged a three-day...
News Release 06 March 2010 Women farmers and urban poor women joined forces today as they braved the heat and marched to Mendiola to condemn Arroyo government's lack of action in addressing the severe effects of El Niño. "The so-called P1.7 billion calamity fund...
PRESS STATEMENT 6 March 2010 Anti-water privatization alliance Water for the People Network (WPN) today said that the termination of the proposed P52-billion Laiban Dam is just a temporary setback for its proponents and called on all concerned sectors to remain...
The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today called the Arroyo government's campaign against private armies a farce because the politicians who run them are administration allies in the region. “The Arroyo regime only wants to put on a show to assuage public...
Delayed 13th month pay. Delayed and staggered payment of salaries. Delayed remittance of monthly salary deduction. Non-remittance of withholding taxes. These are only a few of the problems experienced by workers as early as 2004 in the former National Steel...
Press Release March 5, 2010 Davao City — Eight Thousand farmers, lumad, urban poor, teachers, women and youth flocked from Freedom Park to Rizal Park today (March 5) to demand justice for the murder of Rebelyn Pitao and all victims of political killings. Rebelyn,...
News Release March 5, 2010 Lawyers from the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) and the National Union of People's Lawyers (NUPL), representing the 43 health workers illegally arrested and detained in Rizal who are collectively known as the "Morong 43", today blocked...
Press Release 5 March 2010 Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of overseas Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East, today calls for the recall of welfare and labor officials who are handling the case of distress OFWs working for their erring employer Annasban Co....
PRESS RELEASE 5 March 2010 The camp-out of repatriated Annasban workers in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) ended in victory on its third day, when the OWWA was forced to give in to the demands of Overseas Filipino Workers who blocked the...
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We in the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions-National Democratic Front of the Philippines salute the revolutionary life, struggle and contributions of Comrade Douglas Vizmanos-Dumanon! Ka Douglas, as we have come to know him, is a veteran cadre and hardworking...
Manila – On the second day of their historic protest camp-out, repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) camping out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) today formed a human chain around the agency’s building to dramatize their demand...
Manila - Progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) today criticized the “predictable charade” being staged by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over the P75 wage hike...
PRESS RELEASE March 3, 2010 Manila – The left-wing Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) criticized Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's tactic of fronting his sisters Maria Elena "Ballsy" Aquino-Cruz, Aurora Corazon "Pinky"...
Press Release 3 March 2010 Indigenous peoples, scientists and environmental activists demand the cancellation of water permits of large-scale mining corporations and foreign energy operators in the country in a protest action in front of the Department of...
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