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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.

Marya Salamat | Sep 11, 2010

Lepanto Owes Workers More Than P254 M, Unions Seek Congressional Inquiry

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Northern Dispatch | Sep 11, 2010

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.

Anne Marxze Umil | Sep 11, 2010

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.

Marya Salamat | Sep 5, 2010

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.

Bulatlat Contributors | Sep 5, 2010

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

Northern Dispatch | Sep 4, 2010

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.

Marya Salamat | Sep 2, 2010

Catholic Bishops to Aquino: Fulfill Pro-Poor Platform, Ignore Luisita SDO

“The president cannot feign neutrality in this issue, for his silence and inaction will mean an implicit endorsement of the unjust compromise deal orchestrated by Cojuangco-owned HLI,” the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said in a statement.

Lyn V. Ramo | Aug 26, 2010

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.

Marya Salamat | Aug 24, 2010

SC Justices Demolish Cojuangco-Aquinos’ Justifications for Giving Farmers ‘Pieces of Paper’ Instead of Land

By MARYA SALAMAT
Highlights in Wednesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court: Why farmers' shares of stocks were diluted, why new workers who were not party to the SDO in 1989 were given new shares, why shares were distributed within 15 years and not within three years as the law required, why the estate should not have been fragmented, why PARC’s revocation order is not a violation of the Bill of Rights, and why HLI’s failure to get DAR's "compliance certificate" could put SDO in trouble. Watch video Watch Bulatlat's video primer on the SDO | Read more about the SDO

Marya Salamat | Aug 20, 2010

All Eyes Today on SC as Farm Workers, Cojuangco-Aquinos Battle Over Luisita

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Lawmaker says Supreme Court itself will be on trial. “The Hacienda Luisita land dispute is the first acid test of the Supreme Court under the Aquino administration. The Cojuangco-Aquinos have put the Supreme Court on trial here,” says Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Aug 18, 2010

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.

Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 18, 2010

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.

Marya Salamat | Aug 17, 2010

Stock Distribution Option: Land Reform without Land

That the plight of farm workers at Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac has already faded from the mainstream media limelight does not mean that there is now peace in the area. Last April 22, some 1,500 farm workers agreed to withdraw their shares in Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI), demand that stock distribution option (SDO) be revoked and opt for land distribution instead.

Bulatlat Staff | May 15, 2005

Confessions of a ‘Yellow Armyman’

A former member of the Yellow Army and supervisor of Hacienda Luisita who admitted to being one of campaigners for the Stock Distribution Option in 1989 tell how he did so -- and why they are going against it today.

Bulatlat Staff | Mar 12, 2005

Abelardo Ladera: The Hero of Luisita

Before the coffin bearing the remains of Tarlac City Councilor Abel Ladera, the ninth Hacienda Luisita martyr, was buried, it was opened for his family and barriomates one last time. It took however almost an hour before the people could finish their goodbye: young ones took pictures of him with their cellular phones; the older ones patted the coffin, with whispers of “Salamat po, salamat po” (thank you, thank you) while a woman asked with a break in her voice, “Bakit ka nila pinatay, wala na kaming kasama.” (Why did they kill you, we no longer have someone to help us.)

Bulatlat Staff | Mar 12, 2005

The Untold Story of Hacienda Luisita Workers

Holding a multi-colored bayong (plastic market bag), Mang Pering, a retired sugar farm worker, looked half-scared and half-exited. Inside his bayong was a panti (fish net made of nylon) and some dry clothes. He is on his way to the nearby river where he hopes to get some fish so his family would have something to eat for the day. But before he left, he said he only had one wish: “Sana hindi ako mahuli ng gwardya” (I hope the guard won’t catch me).

Bulatlat Staff | May 2, 2004

Tug of War in Hacienda Luisita

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has set June 10 as the date for initial land distribution in Hacienda Luisita but the parties to the dispute, including DAR, appear to be getting deeply embroiled in a tug-of-war.

Bulatlat Staff | Jun 4, 2006

Fields of Cane, Fields of Struggle

Sa Ngalan ng Tubo is action-packed and is never dragging. The music is at one time stirring and at another, solemn. Truly, the film portrays a history unfolding – and the strikers as the makers of history.

Bulatlat Staff | Jan 30, 2005

Mayhem in Labor Chief’s Power: Workers Say ‘Assumption of Jurisdiction’ Is Anti-Labor

The labor secretary’s “assumption of jurisdiction” power is being used to ban all strikes and has caused bloodshed in the workers front. This is like reliving martial law, militant labor unions say.

Bulatlat Staff | Dec 12, 2004

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