The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February 24 a cause of serious concern. In its report: “The Committee once again recalls the importance it attaches to the Government making all…
Day: March 25, 2010
Blame Comelec, Not Absence of Laws, For the Partylist Mess– Bayan
(Bulatlat.com) It is not the absence of laws, but the incompetence of Comelec officials that has resulted in the entry of spurious partylist groups in the May 10 elections. This was the analysis of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) as it vowed to oppose the partylist nomination of Pampanga Congressman and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo…
Farmers Asked Mar Roxas to Stop Araneta Landgrabbing
Farmers from Barangay Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan protested at the offices of Araneta Properties, Inc. in Makati against its landgrabbing. Leaders and members of Tungkong Mangga Upland Farmers Association, Inc. (TMUFAI), San Isidro Samahang Sandigan ng Magsasaka (SASAMAG), Samahan ng Magsasaka sa Sitio Dalandanan (SAMAGDA) and Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)…
Another Proposed Dam, Likely Destruction of Watershed, Opposed in Mindanao
(Bulatlat.com) DAVAO City — Indigenous group KATRIBU Partylist together with environmentalist group PANALIPDAN Southern Mindanao and Tamugan Farmers Association (TAFA) held a protest action as part of its commemoration of the Earth Hour (March 27) and the World Water Day (March 22) at the Ponciano Rotonda fronting Post Office in this city today. They protested…
PUP Students Triumph over Proposed Tuition Hike
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The proposed tuition fee hike would mean forced expulsion of thousands of students coming from poor families, especially from the working class.
Activist Abducted in Cagayan, Later Found in Jail
Myrna Cruz Abraham, 55, suffered the same fate as that of the 43 health workers dubbed the Morong 43 –arrested without a warrant, blindfolded, handcuffed and thrown like a pig inside the van of her captors.