By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A week before Christmas, news reports on the country’s economic prospects — coming from the government, the Bangko Sentral, and two international credit-rating agencies — are uniformly upbeat: the economy...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The alliance of workers and various cause-oriented groups Defend Job Philippines is backing the fight of employees of Banco Filipino Mortgage Bank against what they said was unjust and inhumane lay-off. Banco Filipino...
Both a Filipino migrants’ leader and the top executive of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas say that the increase in remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) this year is due to the increase in the deployment of workers and professional for overseas jobs....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com The government, said Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, may impose additional taxes to raise the income needed to finance this year’s proposed P1.053 trillion ($20,371,445,153) national budget. In the 2006...
A strong peso is supposed to benefit consumers through lower prices of goods and services. Why is this not the case at this point? BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Bulatlat.com In the first quarter of this year, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stressed that the people can...
Time and again the specter of inflation and factory closures are being raised every time a wage increase is in the offing. And it is terribly insulting to workers that again this is being raised even if the wage and allowance hike being floated for workers in Metro...
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