By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: More Labor Violations Discovered at Eton MANILA — Freddie Enriquez, 30, has been working in the construction sector for 13 years now. Until January 3 this year, he was “lead man” in their latest project where they had been at work for the last three years. He was part…
Day: April 15, 2011
More Labor Violations Discovered at Eton
By MARYA SALAMAT
It had taken ten dead construction workers and a public outcry before the labor department dispatched an inspection team to Lucio Tan’s construction sites. What they discovered were multiple violations of labor standards.
Sidebar: Covered-up Accidents, Underpayment of Wages in Big Construction Sites
Suffering What Even Adults Should Not Go Through
By JONELLE MARIN
It has been said that children are always caught in the crossfire in a war preventing them from having normal lives. It would have even been better if this was the case, because the following stories are accounts of children who became the target of attacks by the military.
Execution of 3 Filipinos in China reminiscent of Flor Contemplacion’s death
By ERIKA CALEJA and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It is the government’s policy to provide legal counsel only at the tail end of the case. It is like waiting for an illness to turn into cancer before being treated.” – Migrante International
Protect the workers, not the profits of investors – LFS
PRESS RELEASE April 15, 2011 “It is the living standard of the people, of the working class and low-income families that concerns us, not the profits of the investors.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, chairperson of the League of Filipino Students, as the the militant student organization railed against Malacanang’s rejection of the…
Farmers Hold Caravan Protest Against PH-US Balikatan Exercises in Central Luzon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We were never fooled – the motives of the US have always been self-serving. The US has always made sure to protect its own economic and geopolitical interests in Asia and it has been using the Philippines to do this.” – Satur Ocampo of Makabayan
Benjie Oliveros | Suffering From Fundamentally Flawed Premises
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The March 4-7 survey of the Social Weather Station, which it made exclusively for Business World, showed that 20.5 percent of respondents or an estimated 4.2 million families experienced hunger at least once in the past three months. This represents an increase from the 18.5 percent or an estimated 3.4 million…
Rice Crisis Looms Once More
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Anakpawis Representative Rafael Mariano today said that a looming rice crisis is “a real problem” that cannot be addressed by palliative and short-term solutions but by “real solutions.” Mariano issued the statement after the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Nica) said that “one of the possible flash points…
Malacañang’s Pantawid Oil Subsidy Program, A Deception Says Lawmaker
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Are subsidies for public transport drivers enough, or is putting a stop to oil price hikes better? Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño has expressed strong criticism against the President Benigno Aquino’s announcement of his government’s Public Transport Assistance Program (PTAP or Pantawid ). The program started earlier this week,…
Political Detainee, Poet Ericson Acosta Tortured, Almost Executed by Military
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
By Acosta’s account, the interrogation by at least eight military officials who took turns began 10:30 p.m. on the day of his arrest and ended only on 6:00 pm of February 15. In the intervening 44 hours, he was only allowed two hours of sleep and only because his interrogators themselves already got too tired and sleepy.
Teachers’ Group Protest Delays in Payment of Kindergarten Teachers’ Salaries
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) held a picket in front of the national office of the Department of Education in Pasig City on the opening of its eight-week Kindergarten Summer Program (KSP) in all schools nationwide to protest against delays in the salary payments of kindergarten teachers. France…