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By MARYA SALAMAT
Child labor arises in the Philippines because of the government’s failure in generating decent jobs. – KMU
By MARYA SALAMAT
The Parañaque court’s TRO resulted in the deployment of more than 70 policemen and Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) and a fire truck in the strike area.
By MARYA SALAMAT
VECO workers are being asked to explain why they had taken part in the May Day rally wearing their uniforms, and why they had hurled tomatoes at the picture of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III during the May 1 program.
By PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY
Of the 40.3 million workers who are part of the labor force in the Philippines, 19 million are wage or salary earners, only 1.7 million of whom are union members.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The union-busting and illegal dismissals, said the union president, started since they formed a union for the radio network’s Manila operations.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Aquino has granted only “measly wage hikes, promoted contractualization even more, made demolitions of urban poor communities more brutal, and colluded with the oil cartel.” – KMU
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By MARYA SALAMAT
This Labor Day, the workers and the poor will take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond to their calls, making the hunger and poverty situation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous government’s puppetry to the US.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Firing a highly-rated performing employee and popular union leader only shows how companies are ruthless in using low-handed tactics to weaken unions and implement their profit schemes. No industry is spared; no character of employee is taken into consideration.” -- EILER
By MARYA SALAMAT
A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"I know that this is a ploy to cripple the trade union movement in Negros because of our critical position to the Aquino government." Ronald Ian Evidente, KMU-Negros spokesman
By MARYA SALAMAT
As peasants and workers are being battered by incessant price hikes, peasants are demanding for an increase in the government’s procurement of rice and workers for a substantial wage increase.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Since the entry of the call center industry into the country in the early 2000s, there is a downward trend in the salaries being received by the majority of call center agents.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Even employers in other regions have reportedly told the House labor committee they can afford the said wage hike.
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