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.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
A hundred doctors and medical professors on mass leave in UP-PGH (University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital), supported by UP and PGH employees, defied last Monday a memo issued by the ‘de-facto’ PGH director Dr. Enrique Domingo and a warning raised by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairman Francisco T. Duque III against their joining “disruptive” protest actions and taking part in mass leaves.
Ni TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com ilang pagkakataon na ring pilit Iwinawaksi ang musang nag-uudyok sa pagtula ng inyong kabanata sapagkat, walang salita, walang kataga, wala ni isang talinhaga ang magsasalarawan ng kirot hapdi hagupit sa dibdib sa bawat sandaling pag-alala sa inyong: mga kaibigan mga magulang mga anak mga kapatid na patuloy pinipiit nilang…
By ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Three local candidates in Ilocos Norte province received letters from anonymous sender last March 24 demonizing Makabayan party senatorial candidates Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza and progressive party list groups. The letter branded Ocampo as a “butcher and murderer” in the Southern Tagalog and Bicol regions for allegedly leading…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The counter-insurgency operations of the government have reached the campuses, harassing students involved in movement for reforms and societal change.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com A 150,000-strong organization of Filipino-American nurses based in the United States joined the call for the release of 43 health workers. The 43 health workers or Morong 43 were arrested on February 6 while holding a health skills training in Morong, Rizal. They have been detained at Camp Capinpin…
NEWS RELEASE April 5, 2010 A prison term starting June 30 is the wish of workers for Gloria Arroyo’s 63rd birthday today, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said. KMU also wishes that the Judicial and Bar Council, which is holding its meeting today, will not give a pleasant gift to Mrs. Arroyo, in the form…
Statement April 4, 2010 A passover for the Filipino People 1. We are a spiritual people blessed with a living faith that has seen us through critical moments of our history. Today, even greater faith in a merciful God and in ourselves as a nation is called for. Past obstacles that have blocked our path…
Press Statement 4 April 2010 Totally humbled and chastised for having his Cafgus disarmed right under his nose, Manny Piñol with the 57th IB and the 40th IB – AFP have launched a program of retaliation and persecution against ordinary, hapless civilians and his very own constituents. He has ordered a massive military operation in…
Press Release April 5, 2010 Today marks the eighth year death anniversary of my daughter Benjaline “Beng” Hernandez. Beng was a former student journalist who chose to work for the marginalized as a human rights defender. Together with other human rights workers Vivian Andrade and Crisanto Amora, Beng was killed by CAFGU and military elements…
Press Release March 30, 2010 Child rights advocates challenged presidential candidates to make a stand on children branded as “child soldiers” by the military to cover up their human rights abuses. The challenge was made as they commemorate the 3rd death anniversary of Grecil Buya, the 9 year old girl, who was killed during military…