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“Without price controls and the repeal of deregulation policies, these measures merely create an illusion of control."
Absence of concrete price control mechanisms leaves transport workers, farmers, fisherfolk, and low-income households vulnerable to what it described as “war-driven oil shock."
Assistance is insufficient to offset the effects of rising fuel prices on agricultural production.
Aside from the abolition of regional wages, KMU is pushing for immediate economic relief for the workers and the junking of regressive taxes on oil, food, and basic social services.
According to the groups, suspending the excise tax is a mere “temporary fix” when people’s organizations had long been calling for the repeal of the Oil Deregulation Law to regulate the prices of oil and other petroleum products.
Without government intervention, public utility drivers will continue to bear the brunt of rising fuel prices as their daily earnings steadily decline.
Jeepney drivers and Filipino consumers do not have to be at the mercy of oil companies. The oil industry does not have to be deregulated. Oil prices can be controlled. The government does not have to be useless.
The study of aquatic resources cannot be divorced from the communities whose survival depends on them.
“There’s no way that I’ll exchange my son’s life for just mere money. I told them they just need to find my son no matter what.” – a father of one of the missing individuals
Vendors said proceeded without prior consultation or notice.
Even to this day, residents express outrage because of low to no water connection in several areas in Malaybalay City, yet monthly bills continue
Sinabi ni Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Cristina Roque na sapat daw ang P500 na noche buena para sa pamilyang may apat na miyembro.
“Personally, I felt its weight. Stipend delays have become a real struggle, especially now that my mother, a single mom, can barely sustain my daily needs.”
“There might be an Assumption of Jurisdiction order from Labor Secretary Laguesma, but we will continue to fight until we fully achieve our benefits, just wages, and the return to work of our seven fellow unionists that were illegally dismissed by the company.”
Buen, Ramirez, and Abellana are among the many affected consumers who are billed monthly with a minimum charge and continue to pay their dues despite not being able to benefit from the services of PrimeWater.
“This is a ghost regulation where the agency exists in name but abandons its duty to ensure least-cost electricity."
“The Institute is of the opinion that the EU seafarers and the applicant (Filipino and Indonesian seafarers) have carried out their work under equal or comparable working conditions. They were colleagues who worked on the respondent’s (Dutch shipping companies) seagoing vessels under the same conditions.”
"NAIA is a strategic public service that the Philippine government must manage and operate to serve the interests of the traveling public – not to become a profit center for elite corporations.”
The Konsultahang Bayan marked a step toward collective dialogue, with youth and grassroots groups pledging to continue to watch over Iloilo’s tax and transport policies.
The fishers stressed that the mayor is obliged to process their permits, that police power cannot override rights, and that the LGU’s refusal is meant to clear the way for reclamation projects.
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