Progressive party-list groups vow to be voices of dissent in a chamber that will most likely be a rubber stamp of the incoming administration.
Fight continues for progressive party-lists facing disqualification cases
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On World Teachers Day, public school educators amplify call for wage hike
Teachers lament that state security forces get doubled salaries in 2018, but not teachers.
Labor secretary to look into K to 12 effect on labor
“This is an opportune time for government to assert more regulatory power over private schools while protecting the rights of teaching and non-teaching personnel and ensuring quality education at the same time.”
‘K to 12 worsens contractualization’ – ACT Teachers’ Party
“With these reports coming directly from our affected faculty, we have seen that K to 12 is an assault on job security, the right to decent salary and benefits, and other rights of labor.”
‘ACT Teachers partylist win shows strength of educators’ unions’
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), through its partylist, ACT Teachers garnered two seats in the 17th Congress.
Congress passes bill making election service voluntary for teachers
“We dedicate the passage of this law to the memory of Filomena Tatlonghari, Nellie Banaag, and other teachers who gave their lives while serving in elections.”
Public school teachers protest cut in bonus
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – December is a season of giving, but not for government employees. Public school teachers marched to Chino Roces Bridger (former Mendiola Bridge), December 14 to in protest of the 50-percent reduction of their Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI). “It’s as if it’s not Christmas,” said Digna Balderama, 45,…
Teacher, five others abducted by soldiers in Rizal province
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Teacher Lanie and her companions are the newest victims of a military establishment which—per the skewed, inhumane logic of Oplan Bayanihan—does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.” – Rep. Antonio Tinio, ACT Party-list
Soldiers harass residents, teachers in Compostela Valley
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“How can they say that they are for peace and development when they are terrorizing us?”
Public Private Partnerships in education, health ‘more costly’– ACT Teachers Party
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The financial cost of repaying the capital investment of Private Finance Initiative investors is therefore considerably greater than the equivalent repayment of direct government investment.” – England’s House of Commons Treasury Committee
Two Public School Teachers Killed, Another Survives Attack in Masbate
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Two teachers, where one is a member of the leftist group Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), were killed in just the first 10 days of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, bringing the number of extrajudicial killings under his watch to four.