“We believe that even though we are a small group, we can be a formidable force that can mobilize every contractual worker in the country to stand up for labor justice.”
GMA-7 talents urge public to light candles vs. contractual labor
Day: June 4, 2015
Tanduay strikers persist in fight for regularization despite harassment
“Why did the police not arrest the goons for their violence earlier? Why did they handcuff the workers and treat them like criminals instead?”
MRT: the fallacies and folly of privatization
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective What the government does, corporations can do better and more efficiently. Competition will bring down the prices of services, which were formerly provided by government. Besides, government-owned and controlled corporations are just milking cows of corrupt government officials so it is better to turn it over to the private sector.…
Group calls BBL deliberations ‘a mockery of right to self-determination’
“Self-determination is a democratic process and exercise defined and conducted by the people themselves, free from intervention, manipulation and dictate of the ruling elite based on their vested interests.”
IPs to DepEd: Don’t close schools we built
“We have been waiting all our lives for the government to build a school in our communities, but now that we are able to build schools with our own perseverance, why do they want to close it?”