April 30, 2015 | Bulatlat

Youth groups storm Ched, denounce tuition increase

“Regardless of the repression students opposing tuition hikes suffer, Ched continues to adhere to the whims of school administrators."

Anne Marxze Umil | Apr 30, 2015

Govt union leaders receive threats via mail

Suspected military agents send snail mail threatening leaders of a government workers’ union to “change your ways.”

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Apr 30, 2015

Peasant leader killed in Compostela Valley

Luis Carbajosa, 44, peasant leader of Mabini was in the Order of Battle of the military.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Apr 30, 2015

No country for old, even young workers

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Aquino government, according to its Twitter posts, intends to declare as ‘milestones’: the purported decrease in unemployment and the 13th month pay tax exemptions. Filipinos have a term for this: “consuelo de bobo.”...

Benjie Oliveros | Apr 30, 2015

UP Diliman supports call for P16,000 national minimum salary

MANILA — The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) community under the banner of All Workers’ Unity - UPD expressed full support for the call to peg the national minimum wage of all workers at P16,000 (US$358) a month. Faculty members, researchers, employees,...

Ronalyn V. Olea | Apr 30, 2015

Agricultural workers get slave-like wages, federation says

The national federation of agricultural workers fears that sugar workers would be paid even less this crop year as the tariff for imported sugar would go down to just five percent because of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Apr 30, 2015

Labor Day to be marked by protests by different workers’ groups

A mural depicting President Aquino and Uncle Sam in full battle gear aboard an airborne drone, besieged by protests, and a 12-foot effigy of Aquino as Commandeath-in-chief would be the main symbols of protest this May 1st.

Marya Salamat | Apr 30, 2015