By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Eagle-eyed
Month: May 2014
Boracay
GUNITA NG SALITA Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ang Boracay ay ang mitikal na mirage ng gitnang uring bakasyon at mataas na uri ng weekend na libangan o weekday na chill. Kahit pa marami nang lokal na turista ang nakapunta rito, marami pa rin sa ating mamamayan ay walang muwang ukol dito, kasing layo ng Batanes,…
Marx lives
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com Karl Marx is 196 years old today. With his birth nearly two centuries away from the present, it is amazing how his life and works continue to speak of a man who truly possessed a willpower that was hardly ever negotiable. Those who follow his thought would know that…
Neophyte unionists invite others to form own unions
“While many thought forming unions is detrimental to workers, genuine unions fight for workers’ rights and against abuses in the workplace.” – union leader
EDCA — negotiated surrender of sovereignty
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Now we know why the “negotiations” for what would emerge as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) were conducted under a cloak of secrecy. Not a single byte of the draft was made available to other government functionaries, not even the treaty-making arm of the Philippine state, the Senate,…
Back to the past
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Most Filipinos — 85% of them, according to a survey by the US-based Pew Research Center — may think the US their lord and savior. But no matter how convinced they are that their devotion to the US is reciprocated, and that the latter will go to…
Contractualization trumps workers’ rights
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Winding up two-thirds of its six-year term, the P-Noy government came under the severest criticisms on International Labor Day for its basically anti-labor policies and failure to address a broad range of national problems. The condemnation and other verbal attacks came not only from…
Workers turn ‘Endo’ into demand to end contractualization
Intensifying contractualization and implementing the two-tier wage system are the two main schemes being availed by the government and employers today to press or cut down wages. – Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of Kilusang Mayo Uno
Workers, youth, other sectors march in thousands, slam Aquino’s anti-labor policies
“The massive unemployment among the youth is testament to the Aquino regime’s failure to bring change to the lives of Filipinos. Millions of our countrymen are hungrier than ever, with most people remaining jobless, and those with jobs are living with barely sufficient wages.” –Kabataan Party Rep. Terry Ridon
EDCA: An environmental hazard and toxic threat to the PH
How can you call someone a friend or an ally when they have stubbornly refused to pay their debts, clean up the mess they made in your own home, and suffer from selective amnesia when it comes to owning up to their transgressions?
On Labor Day, Filipino workers slam ‘Aquino’s treachery’
Filipino workers staged protest actions in different parts of the country condemning the signing of the United States-Philippines Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and the US-dictated neoliberal policies on the economy. Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea in Manila, Southern Tagalog Exposure in Calamba, Noel Godinez / Northern Dispatch in Baguio, Owen Segovia Bayog in Bacolod, Carl…