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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
"He is really known in Lemery as a leader who advocates for the interests of the people,”
By SHARMAINE VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “Of course we would fight for the financial assistance due to us no matter what happens. I have sacrificed so much for this. Financial assistance is financial assistance. For me, and for everyone here, we will continue...
By JONELLE MARIN Bulatlat.com What appears to be President Benigno Aquino III’s efforts, or lack thereof, in ending poverty in the Philippines have been looming as the people’s primary burden making them poorer. “Look at the results of the recent Social Weather...
Red Pepper (U.K.) Reposted by Bulatlat.com Tom Fox argues that the arms trade means our foreign policy will never be humanitarian With a no-fly zone established and British aircraft among those bombing Libya, we once again have a government smearing themselves with...
Truthdig / By Chris Hedges Reposted by Bulatlat.com Our Public Schools Are Churning Out Drones for the Corporate State Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands. A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts...
By Bulatlat.com If small and large employers in the Philippines accept a cut in their already-substantial profits, they can afford to grant a sufficient wage increase, according to research group IBON. The benefits for workers and their families is unambiguous and...
PRESS RELEASE A militant group, which includes young workers and professionals among its ranks, today rejected proposals to pass a minimum wage increase through regional wage boards as 'doomed to failure'. Members of Anakbayan joined workers today in a series of...
PRESS RELEASE MANILA -- At least 300 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Madagascar who underwent emergency repatriation due to a malaria epidemic in the country today trooped to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) office to demand financial...
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...
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
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.
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
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
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....
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...
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...
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.
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...
Press Release April 12, 2011 Government employees united under the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) today held a protest action in front of the National Housing Authority in order to express their outrage over...
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