After a five-month strike, PUP janitors regain their jobs

By MARYA SALAMAT
The janitors credit their reinstatement to the workers’ unity and determined struggle.
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By MARYA SALAMAT
The janitors credit their reinstatement to the workers’ unity and determined struggle.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) called on the newly-installed president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to heed the demand of at least 180 striking contractual janitors for reinstatement. PUP president...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: Groups declare ‘People’s Protest’ a success MANILA – Fe Nibasa, 39, brought along her seven-year-old son, the youngest of her five children, in a protest action against the incessant oil price...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – On the fourth day of the strike of 180 contractual janitors of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), the labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno dared the labor department to compel the PUP administration to absorb the...

By MARYA SALAMAT
More than 60-percent of Filipino workers today suffer job insecurity and persistent case of “endo,” short for end of contract, every three to five months.
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