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Day: June 18, 2013
Future of city’s 10,000 workers to be decided
Chibo Tan of the National Federation of Labor Unions said the situation of the city government’s job order and contract of service workers only reflect the system of the current dispensation which implements contractualization, a scheme that does not protect their right to security of tenure.
Anti-privatization group picket office of lone bidder to Orthopedic Center modernization project
“Healthcare is non-negotiable. The POC has been servicing the poor during its 68 years in existence. The POC should remain for the poor.”
What’s P-Noy game plan on Bangsamoro issue?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The P-Noy government has vowed to resolve the Bangsamoro issue in Mindanao within its six-year-term ending in June 2016, and the presidential adviser on the peace process has assured that the government intends to implement all its commitments under the final peace agreements. Yet…
Independence
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld JUNE 12, 1898, the date when, 115 years ago, Emilio Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain, was marked this year with the usual speeches, flag-raisings, floral offerings and other rites by officialdom. The usual vin d’honneur took place in Malacañang, with Benigno Aquino III toasting the “continued…
PPP — profits before people
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The privatization mantra is being incessantly hummed by the Aquino III administration. Privatization is being promoted to the public as the solution to deteriorated, broken-down and inadequate public utilities and social services. The argument is not new: government just doesn’t have the resources to provide for these public goods.…