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Broad Alliance Bats for Zero Toll Fee Increase, Govt Takeover and Subsidy of Toll Roads
Broad Alliance Bats for Zero Toll Fee Increase, Govt Takeover and Subsidy of Toll Roads
By MARYA SALAMAT
Leaders and representatives of commuters, drivers, workers, transport workers and transport operators including pier-based truckers and bus companies, an association of independent oil companies and a legal expert banded together to oppose the impending toll fee hike.
‘Protest Center’ Marks Struggle of ABS-CBN Employees for Their Rights
‘Protest Center’ Marks Struggle of ABS-CBN Employees for Their Rights
By MARYA SALAMAT
Union hits delaying tactics and labor rights violations of ABS CBN. Labor centers slam government proposal to further relax labor laws.
DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action
DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action
By MARYA SALAMAT
Now that the assumption of jurisdiction order has taken away the flight attendants' right to strike, they are left with no recourse but to appeal to the media and the Filipino riding public “to join us and await how this new government will resolve the labor dispute.”
Strike Defies Assumption of Jurisdiction Order in RP’s Largest Palm Oil Company
Strike Defies Assumption of Jurisdiction Order in RP’s Largest Palm Oil Company
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers in Filipinas Palm Oil Industries launched a strike after months of negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement hit a deadlock, despite an assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) order from the labor department. A first strike in defiance of AJ under the Aquino administration.
Noynoy, DOLE Chief Asked to Resolve 8-Year Strike at Nestlé
Noynoy, DOLE Chief Asked to Resolve 8-Year Strike at Nestlé
By MARYA SALAMAT
The striking Nestlé workers had asked the new president as soon as he was inaugurated to help resolve the issues that had brought them to their nearly nine-year strike.
PALEA Celebrates 64th Anniversary Amid Turbulent Times at PAL
PALEA Celebrates 64th Anniversary Amid Turbulent Times at PAL
By MARYA SALAMAT
Both PALEA and FASAP are seeking to finally ink a new, improved CBA with PAL. But PALEA has been met with mass termination notices, while FASAP has been forced to file a notice of strike as PAL firmly refuses to put the discriminatory retirement provision on the negotiating table.
Is the Open-Skies Policy the Answer to Lucio Tan’s Anti-Worker Schemes?
Is the Open-Skies Policy the Answer to Lucio Tan’s Anti-Worker Schemes?
By MARYA SALAMAT
In the short-term, this may close the gap in air transport service that a strike in the Philippine flag carrier would create, but at the expense of sabotaging the demands of Filipino workers.
For ABS-CBN, Six to 16 Years of Service to the Company Does Not Seem to Matter
For ABS-CBN, Six to 16 Years of Service to the Company Does Not Seem to Matter
By MARYA SALAMAT
Her labor case took seven years before the DOLE issued a decision saying Wheng Hidalgo is supposed to be treated as regular employee at ABS-CBN. But instead of gaining job security, Hidalgo was moved around from graveyard to late afternoon shift, and later terminated for rejecting the company's insulting, long-delayed regularization offer. “I cannot understand why...I gave ABS-CBN my service, love, loyalty,” Hidalgo said.
Inspiring Pioneer of Philippine Drivers’ Movement Gave His Final ‘Boundary’
Inspiring Pioneer of Philippine Drivers’ Movement Gave His Final ‘Boundary’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
and MARYA SALAMAT
Medardo “Ka Roda” Roda, a towering presence in the struggle for the just treatment of transport workers and of the marginalized sectors for more than three decades, is unarguably the most famous and most well-loved transport leader this country has ever had. He inspires the younger progressive transport leaders and stymies the yellow transport leaders into ignominy by comparison.
In Jail on Trumped-Up Charges, KMU Regional Leader Pines for Freedom
In Jail on Trumped-Up Charges, KMU Regional Leader Pines for Freedom
By MARYA SALAMAT
Three years and four months after the arrest of KMU National Council member and regional coordinator of Anakpawis Partylist Vincent ‘Bebot’ Borja, the Regional Trial Court will hear on Monday, Sept. 6, only its second hearing to date. The KMU calls his arrest and the delay in the hearings as an injustice.
ABS-CBN Sacks Veteran Reporter, 19 Others
ABS-CBN Sacks Veteran Reporter, 19 Others
The firing of reporter Wheng Hidalgo and other personnel, all from ABS-CBN’s Technical Operations Department, brought to 110 the number of workers from the network’s Internal Job Market dismissed since June 16.
Right to Organize, Best Protection for Contractual Workers
Right to Organize, Best Protection for Contractual Workers
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
“Contractualization is essentially an attack on the right of workers and the people to a living wage, to job security and to exercising trade-union rights. Any form of “protection” under a contractual employment status won’t be enough. Only unionization and regularization will truly protect contractuals.” – KMU
Consumers’ Alliance Against MRT, LRT Fare Hike Formed
Consumers’ Alliance Against MRT, LRT Fare Hike Formed
By MARYA SALAMAT
The newly-formed alliance RILES called on the public to oppose the MRT, LRT fare hikes, asserting that the trains should be for public service and not for generating profits for businesses.
Fired ABS-CBN Employees Gain Initial Victory, Labor Department Orders Holding of Certification Election
Fired ABS-CBN Employees Gain Initial Victory, Labor Department Orders Holding of Certification Election
By MARYA SALAMAT
The decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz rejecting the claim of ABS CBN that there is no employer-employee relationship between the media network and the ABS CBN Internal Job Market and approving the union's petition for a certification election came after five months of struggle and the dismissal of 90 unionists.
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Axes 37 More Workers
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Axes 37 More Workers
The ABS-CBN IJM Workers Union and other dismissed workers held a silent protest in front of the network compound on Friday to denounce the illegal dismissals, contractualization and union-busting at ABS-CBN.
Friday the 13th ‘Massacre’ at ABS-CBN as Media Giant Axes 37 More Workers
Friday the 13th ‘Massacre’ at ABS-CBN as Media Giant Axes 37 More Workers
By MARYA SALAMAT
The ABS-CBN IJM Workers Union asks President Aquino to stop the illegal dismissals, contractualization and union-busting at his “favorite” media network.
As Strike Looms, PAL Flight Attendants Demand Fair Treatment From Government
As Strike Looms, PAL Flight Attendants Demand Fair Treatment From Government
By MARYA SALAMAT
“If you can tie our hands with an AJ (assumption of jurisdiction), please tie the hands, too, of the PAL management with regard to their discrimination and violations of the Labor Code,” Robert Anduiza, FASAP president, appealed to the Department of Labor.
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