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By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"We are like slaves! We are not being treated with respect and by ignoring our demands for a CNA the MMDA administration is stripping us of our dignity." MMDA streetsweepers
By MARYA SALAMAT
Majority of those employed today in the Philippines are in vulnerable or part-time work, hampering many workers’ desire to demand for a living wage. Even those in full-time work are reportedly under pressure to comply with various flexible work arrangements.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Comparing the local oil prices to that in other countries in the past years, Piston said the local pump prices have risen far more than the amount necessitated by price movements abroad and the peso-dollar exchange rate. The transport group continues to accuse the oil companies of overpricing oil products by “an average at least of P7.50 ($0.17) per liter.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
“I was once a laborer, too. I have worked at various jobs just to be able to feed my family. I know how it is to work hard and to subsist on meager wages.” – Rep. Manny Pacquiao
By MARYA SALAMAT
Tony Pascual of NAFLU-KMU warned all labor groups in the country to beware of the employers’ renewed calls for tripartism, a “loaded dice that seeks to favour the capitalists in every roll”.
Sidebar: Dolefil hikes profits by repressing progressive union, said a labor federation
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In an interview with Bulatlat.com, Rodolfo Bejar from the PhilPost's Domestic Operations and Services Department said that the last decade has seen the PhilPost as being a "virtual bastion of corruption," and that despite the efforts of the employees to bring the various corruption issues to the attention of the national government, nothing has happened.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The media blitz being done by Nestlé could no more hide its continued violation of the Supreme Court decisions and other laws in the Philippines so it could continue to deny justice to its workers who are now into their ninth year of strike.” – KMU
By MARYA SALAMAT
“What is happening in Mustad is a textbook case of illegal closure...of capitalists drastically undertaking illegal and anti-worker measures because they are confident the Aquino government won’t lift a finger to harm them,” said Leandro “Ka Doods” Gerodias, KMU deputy secretary-general and president of the Alliance of Democratic Labor Organizations (ADLO).
The labor center KMU which Ka Bel led for years said their group's vow to advance the people’s struggle for their basic rights and for a significant wage hike is, in their belief, the highest tribute they can give Ka Bel. (Text by MARYA SALAMAT ; Photos by RANDY EVANGELISTA / Bulatlat.com)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We, bank employees, are victims of meager wages despite the fact that the banking industry is one of the most profitable in the country," Raymund Acenia, president of the Hongkong Bank Independent Labor Union
By MARYA SALAMAT
Given the growing number of lawmakers supporting the legislation of a substantial wage hike, workers remembering Ka Bel today are hoping that finally, the bill which he first authored and filed may be enacted at last.
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