Arrested UP Cebu graduate ‘not NPA,’ families barred from visit
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Construction workers’ death in Cebu highlights need for pro-worker OSH law – EILER
Construction workers’ death in Cebu highlights need for pro-worker OSH law – EILER
'The management of J.E. Abraham C. Lee Construction and Development Inc. as well as DOLE and Cebu City LGU have fallen short in ensuring safety of the workers.'
Fool’s gold under Duterte
Fool’s gold under Duterte
It looks like gold, shimmers like gold. But scrape its surface off and it's just muck. Like Duterte's promised 'change.'
Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha seeks to constitutionalize the Mining Act's FTAA scheme that allows 100% foreign ownership and large-scale extraction of our mineral resources.
Ars Terror
Ars Terror
This regime labels people who serve the very same people it deprives of life, living wage, and social services as "terrorist" without showing us the way to move the country forward. The term "reactionary state" is crystallized in this government's perpetuation of violence --Martial Law, war on drugs, criminalization of dissent, neoliberal economic policies, and its active campaign for misogyny.
‘Mining Act on steroids’ | Why cha-cha will worsen plunder of PH resources
‘Mining Act on steroids’ | Why cha-cha will worsen plunder of PH resources
Proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution expand and deepen the control and scope allowed for foreign businesses.
Stand with Samar | Eastern Visayas farmers oppose charter change
Stand with Samar | Eastern Visayas farmers oppose charter change
“We were forced to accept the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion [TRAIN] program, and now they want us to accept charter change, too."
Progressive solon, peasant groups push for law on rice industry dev’t
Progressive solon, peasant groups push for law on rice industry dev’t
“The problem with the current NFA is that it is remiss on its mandate to ensure food security.”
Groups renew vow to better serve Filipino migrants in Canada, endorse app to aid Filipinos in need
Groups renew vow to better serve Filipino migrants in Canada, endorse app to aid Filipinos in need
“Overseas Filipinos continue to leave the Philippines under the labour export policy, driven by many social and political problems, such as poverty, lack of jobs, landlessness, the lack of accessible health care and other social benefits.”
Activist Filipina caregiver heads migrants group in Canada
Activist Filipina caregiver heads migrants group in Canada
“Migrants are facing uncertainty that is why it is imperative for them to organize themselves not just to protect their rights and welfare but also to understand and link their issues to the socio-economic problems of Philippine society.”
Government employees reiterate call for salary increase, end to contractualization
Government employees reiterate call for salary increase, end to contractualization
The ACT Teachers Party filed on Feb. 21 House Bill 7211, An Act Increasing the Minimum Salaries of Public School Teachers and other Government Employees and Augmenting the Personnel Economic Relief Allowance (PERA).
Chief Justice Sereno’s ‘forced leave’ exposes widening cracks in Judiciary – lawyers group
Chief Justice Sereno’s ‘forced leave’ exposes widening cracks in Judiciary – lawyers group
The NUPL stressed that in the end, the losing party in this fiasco is not the Chief Justice nor any Justice of the Court, nor the Court or the entire judicial system.
On workers’ draft Executive Order to End Endo | ‘Any EO weaker than this is unacceptable’
On workers’ draft Executive Order to End Endo | ‘Any EO weaker than this is unacceptable’
“President Duterte’s ‘compromise’ means that he wants workers to be exploited indefinitely; and that we could never accept.”
TNCS, Big Biz are big employers of contractuals
TNCS, Big Biz are big employers of contractuals
These are just some examples readily provided by one labor organization.
Espino wants warrantless arrest, reclusion perpetua for members of ‘terror’ groups
Espino wants warrantless arrest, reclusion perpetua for members of ‘terror’ groups
If this proposed law was passed, the government can start making warrantless arrest and detention 15 days after publication.
‘Wheel of Terror’: Martial law in Mindanao exhorts state violence
‘Wheel of Terror’: Martial law in Mindanao exhorts state violence
As of December 2017, Karapatan has already documented 126 cases of extrajudicial killings in the whole country -- at least half of which committed in the Southern Mindanao Region (SMR).
Stand with Samar | On ‘ricelessness’, hunger, and poverty
Stand with Samar | On ‘ricelessness’, hunger, and poverty
“We have exhausted all means to raise our issues to the local DA (Department of Agriculture) and Samar LGUs (local government units) but our demands fell on deaf ears."
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