By IBON FEATURES
Experiences show PPPs did not guarantee savings for the government but even bloated the public debt. It can only get worse under the Aquino government’s new schemes for more of PPPs.
The P25-fare hike for railway MRT is a telling sign of more hard life for women, according to the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), a research and training institute. “The proposed fare hike is not only unjust, it is insensitive to the conditions of the people and partial only to big business and foreign capital,”…
By ARNOLD PADILLA
Aquino’s promotion of PPPs and privatization in his SONA has further reinforced the view that his administration is incapable of introducing new policies that will reverse the old pro-business, pro-market neoliberal policies of the past administrations, including the Arroyo administration.
By MARYA SALAMAT (Bulatlat.com) Manila – After thousands of North Harbor workers and residents protested in Mendiola last Sept. 15, glowing promises of abundant jobs in soon to become privately-run North Harbor came out in ads and news in the papers. But instead of feeling reassured, the current North Harbor employed workers felt “slandered” and…
Two employees unions of the University of the Philippines in a joint statement expressed their opposition to the latest plan to accelerate the privatization of government services which, they said, makes government employees the sacrificial lambs in the government’s inability to raise sufficient revenues and to curtail public spending. By LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch…