Hundreds of workers are set to troop to the gates of the House of Representatives in Quezon City when Congress resumes session on Jan. 16. They will press for the immediate passage of wage increase bill in the face of escalating prices and government promise of tax...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by Bulatlat.com Alarmed by the unabated killing of political activists, world labor leaders will visit the country next month to investigate killings of labor leaders and organizers and repression of the labor...
By MARYA SALAMAT
After two decades of falling real wages, with the last two years bereft of even a paltry wage increase despite the crisis and unmitigated price increases, the progressive labor front has once again raised the demand to legislate a P125 nationwide wage hike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
One of the Philippines’ leading and most profitable broadcasting network, which claims to regard everybody as “kapamilya”, disowns its employees on the grounds that they are working for another entity, ABS-CBN IJM.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) hired as bus drivers in Saudi Arabia and their families in the Philippines are crying foul over a “double whammy.” They sought the help of Migrante International, a migrants' rights advocacy...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers from Dole Philippines’s union have been staging weekly protests to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement with its workers.”
NEWS RELEASE 21 March 2010 More than just mulling over the distribution of female condoms, the labor department should act on the demand of Filipino workers for a nationwide wage hike and creation of decent jobs, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. KMU said...
By BULATLAT Multinational food giant Dole Philippines operating in South Cotabato in Mindanao has resurrected its company-backed employees’ organization to divide the ranks of workers and usurp the representation of legitimate union leaders who have been asserting...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The massive layoffs in the Philippines brought about by the global financial crisis and the increasing appetite of companies for more profit have exposed yet again the Arroyo regime’s sympathy not for workers but for capitalists. And instead of ensuring that workers’ rights are protected, the Department of Labor and Employment has become an even more willing tool by companies to satisfy their greed.
What has the Department of Labor and Employment done about the health and safety violations that have resulted in more than 40 deaths and over 5,000 injuries in the three and a bit years Hanjin has been operating at Subic? What has happened to the Senate probe, which kicked off promisingly in early February amid a flurry of publicity about the then recent deaths at Hanjin?
One of the most renowned mall stores in the country and perhaps in the whole of Asia, the SM super mall is a force to reckon with; but as it started its operations last week, local businesses have raised apprehensions despite praises from some sectors. Is SM really...
BY ARNOLD PADILLA Contributor Bulatlat Part 2 of a two-part series As Filipino workers marked Labor Day last May 1, about 400 from their ranks are being displaced daily as fallout of the global economic crisis. By the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE) own...
Highly touted as the biggest job fair to hit the country, Jobapalooza 09, which aimed to provide 250,000 career opportunities to jobseekers, was held at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City, in celebration of Labor Day. DoLE and OWWA...
Officials of Bayan Muna and Anakpawis in the Visayas belittled the effect of Jobapalooza in Cebu, citing that only 81 applicants landed a job. Calling job fairs as a band-aid solution, they said the Labor Department should, instead, scrutinize the books of...
BY Bulatlat.com September 3, 2008 - 4:31 p.m. Workers led by the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May First Movement), and various sectors led by the Unity for P125 alliance, attended en masse the first hearing of the P125 wage hike bill in the House of Representatives. KMU...
The Department of Labor and Employment reported that 300 overseas Filipino workers have been terminated in Taiwan so far. But migrant groups said the number of retrenched OFWs is much bigger, hovering around more than a thousand. And that more would be laid off. BY...
A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) called for the scrapping of the sample contract being promoted by Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for OFWs. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) called for...
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