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.
Violations of workers’ rights, getting worse – rights group
Tags: ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN crew threatened during Marawi polls coverage
News Release ABS-CBN TV reporter Trini Velasco received a death threat via text message during the network’s coverage of the recently concluded barangay (village) and Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council) elections in Marawi City. Ms. Velasco, of ABS-CBN Cagayan de Oro, received the message Oct. 26, the day after the elections. The ABS-CBN CDO crew had…
‘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.
News in Pictures: IJM Workers Picket in front of ABS-CBN
Starting October 12, the picket in front of ABS-CBN network’s Sgt. Esguerra gate will serve as protest center of the Internal Job Market Workers Union (IJMWU) to further pressure the network management to reinstate the 114 illegally dismissed workers and to hold certification elections, following the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) decision on their case.
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.
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.
KMU Hails Labor Secretary’s Decision on ABS-CBN Workers’ Case
Bulatlat.com Labor center KMU (May First Movement) hailed today Labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s August 13 decision giving a nod to the petition for certification elections filed by ABS-CBN’s contractual workers, calling it a “positive development in the struggle against contractualization.” The decision affirmed the existence of an employer-employee relationship between the workers and the company…
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.
KMU Supports The Struggle of ABS-CBN IJM Workers For Their Rights
We in the Kilusang Mayo Uno fully support the struggle of the employees of ABS-CBN in its Internal Job Market to form their union and collectively bargain with the ABS-CBN management, and to become regular employees of the television network. We raise our clenched fists in salute to the 92 workers who have been laid…
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
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.