Right(s) Up: Safe workplace remains elusive
At least one worker dies every day from preventable accidents.
Right(s) Up: Safe workplace remains elusive
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Not-so-safe delivery: Riders’ trip to unsafe working conditions
Not-so-safe delivery: Riders’ trip to unsafe working conditions
“The nature of work of delivery riders is unquestionably necessary and desirable to the business and trade of the companies to whom they render their services. Without them, companies engaged in the delivery business have actually no business to speak of. Thus, delivery riders are deemed regular employees by operation of law, regardless of the existence of any work contracts they signed."
Cebu workers decry labor right rights violations
Cebu workers decry labor right rights violations
Among the cases the workers brought to the attention of the labor department is the harassment against Jaime Paglinawan, and several other workers rights advocates, whose photos appeared in a Facebook post, with a note that read, “they are the root cause of violence in our society.”
Will COVID-19 spur a wave of unionization?
Will COVID-19 spur a wave of unionization?
Workers have been infuriated by the callous treatment they’ve received in their workplaces. But many of them recognized that the most surefire way to get their employers to provide the protection they needed was through collective action.
Free trade agreements-killing jobs and labor rights
Free trade agreements-killing jobs and labor rights
By David Bacon TruthOut News Analysis Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress. Business interests, ecstatic at the prospect, promise they'll bring us jobs. Experience tells us, however,...
Neglect of occupational health and safety results in death, injuries of workers
Neglect of occupational health and safety results in death, injuries of workers
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
For the year 2009 - 2010, the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD) recorded at least 511 deaths and 791 injured in work-related incidents in the Philippines. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), a worker dies every 15 seconds because of work-related injuries and accidents.
Struggling to make both ends meet with the minimum wage
Struggling to make both ends meet with the minimum wage
The struggles of a minimum wage earner
In Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime
In Proposals, ILO Puts Burden of Respecting Workers’ Rights on Arroyo Regime
By MARYA SALAMAT
A high-level team of the UN’s International Labor Organization has proposed, among others, trainings and "continuing education" for the Philippine police, military, the judiciary and the labor department on how to respect union rights and uphold labor laws.
Sidebar: Responses to ILO High-Level Mission
Women Workers in Shoe Factory Decry Sexual Harassment, Low Wages, Union Busting
Women Workers in Shoe Factory Decry Sexual Harassment, Low Wages, Union Busting
It was not in the job description but kissing the drunk owner of an 18-year-old rubber boots and shoes factory in Muntinlupa was the first thing women workers had to do when they report for work at six in the morning. They lined up not just to have the timecard...
New Zealanders Express Solidarity with Nestlé Philippines Workers
New Zealanders Express Solidarity with Nestlé Philippines Workers
A New Zealand-based group of trade union and human rights advocates held a protest action today at 2pm at the Nestlé head office at 1 Broadway, Newmarket to express solidarity with Nestlé workers in the Philippines. Today marks one year of the brutal dispersal of...
‘Anti-Worker, Unconstitutional, Repressive,’ Migrants Say of POEA’s Sample Contract for OFWs
‘Anti-Worker, Unconstitutional, Repressive,’ Migrants Say of POEA’s Sample Contract for OFWs
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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