P16,000 minimum wage urged to avert more hunger, deprivation
“Wages take decades to adjust but the prices of Meralco, gas, water, increase often, just like that.” – Kadamay-NCR
P16,000 minimum wage urged to avert more hunger, deprivation
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Govt reports ‘better quality jobs,’ labor campaigns vs ‘contractualization’
Govt reports ‘better quality jobs,’ labor campaigns vs ‘contractualization’
“From contract to contract, an untenured worker is threatened with unemployment and hence is forced to surrender entitlements labor have fought for and won in its long history of arduous struggle…”
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It’s bleak Christmas for GMA 7 talents
It’s bleak Christmas for GMA 7 talents
SPECIAL REPORT: Talents, or those who are not considered “regular” employees by the GMA 7 management, despite years of service, do not receive their 13th month pay, a mandatory benefit under the Labor Code.
Related story| New contract, same ‘exploitative’ terms
Sidebar | Talent? | How can you be considered a regular employee
Government, private sector workers stage walkout for ‘National Minimum Wage’
Government, private sector workers stage walkout for ‘National Minimum Wage’
SPECIAL REPORT: “For decades now, workers have experienced worsening hunger and poverty because of the intensifying attacks on the minimum wage while big businesses earn superprofits and big bureaucrats become very wealthy.”
Call center employees call on colleagues to get organized
Call center employees call on colleagues to get organized
SPECIAL REPORT: They are the voice workers who don’t have a voice, or a say, in how they are being treated by companies in the industry.
Related story: Defying prohibitions, call center employees gravitate toward their association
Defying prohibitions, call center workers gravitate toward association
Defying prohibitions, call center workers gravitate toward association
“When they say go to work, you can’t say anything. We have work on Philippine holidays. We have work on US holidays… In the end we don’t really have holidays.”
All workers’ unity for P16,000 minimum wage formed
All workers’ unity for P16,000 minimum wage formed
“Social justice dictates that those who create the nation’s wealth be granted at least their right to a minimum wage amidst the increasing profits and wealth of a handful of capitalists and bureaucrats. We have every reason to believe that capitalists and the government can grant our just demand,.” – Ferdinand Gaite, Courage
Sugar workers in Negros Oriental deprived of cash bonus, social program
Sugar workers in Negros Oriental deprived of cash bonus, social program
“It is disappointing that no government agency, like DOLE, educated us on SAP [Social Amelioration Program) and its cash bonus because obviously, the millers and planters would not likely place our interest ahead of theirs.”
Attack on job security begins after Nestlè takeover of Wyeth
Attack on job security begins after Nestlè takeover of Wyeth
“We are calling for reinstatement because we should not have been dismissed in the first place. We are calling for regularization because we deserve to become regulars for the years of hard work we rendered to the company.” – Jhondel Estabaya, 33, president of SAMA-Ako (Samahan ng Manggagawang Kontraktwal) in Wyeth.
16-hour forced labor in Cebu chemical firm compels workers to strike
16-hour forced labor in Cebu chemical firm compels workers to strike
“After imposing slave-like conditions on workers, the Cenapro management is acting like a dictator in punishing workers for holding legitimate protests against such conditions. It not only wants workers to suffer, it wants workers to suffer in silence.” – Kilusang Mayo Uno
Nurses call for justice to save their ‘dying’ condition
Nurses call for justice to save their ‘dying’ condition
Nurses care for sick patients, but government is not caring for them.
RMN radio workers’ strike reveals seamy side of labor laws, ‘talent’ hiring
RMN radio workers’ strike reveals seamy side of labor laws, ‘talent’ hiring
“Ninety-nine percent of the guidelines during strikes expressly provide what the workers are prohibited to do. There is no corresponding magnitude of responsibility that refers to how the management should behave when a strike is declared.”
Workers seek to end ‘endo’ as they mark World Day for Decent Work
Workers seek to end ‘endo’ as they mark World Day for Decent Work
The word “Endo,” short for “end of contract,” was declared in “Sawikaan 2014: Pagpili ng Salita ng Taon” as word of the year. This word leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of Filipino workers whose various groups united to protest the incidences of “Endo” on Oct. 7, world day for decent work.
Global electronics supplier NXP signs compromise CBA with union
Global electronics supplier NXP signs compromise CBA with union
NXP Semiconductors Phils. agrees to hike workers wage by 5.25-percent for 2014, and 3.5-percent for 2015 and 2016. It reinstated only half of the 24 union officers it fired last May 5.
Radio workers go on strike to defend their jobs, union
Radio workers go on strike to defend their jobs, union
“We will not make compromises on the matter of our job security and our right to unionize. We will not allow RMN to accomplish its ultimate objective of busting our union and depriving us of our rights arising from being unionized.”
Chemical workers call for support against union harassment, 16 hour-work
Chemical workers call for support against union harassment, 16 hour-work
The company suspended Collective Bargaining Agreement talks after the union and other workers held a protest action on July 16 denouncing the 16-hour work and forced overtime in the company.
4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
The scheme will deny workers at least four days’ worth of salary in a month, in exchange for a dubious overtime pay, which may not adequately pay for their health care should they become sick or meet accidents due to fatigue.
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