“There can be no genuine economic growth when workers and Filipinos suffer from low wages, high prices and widespread unemployment.”
Latest survey bolsters clamor for hike in wages, reduction in prices
Day: October 6, 2015
Whether under Arroyo or Aquino, same counterinsurgency tactic pits Lumád against Lumád
Bulatlat.com compiles its articles on Lumad paramilitary groups in Mindanao, which show a worsening trend from the Arroyo regime to the current Aquino administration.
World Teachers’ Day | Renewed calls for salary increase, justice for ‘Sir Emok’
“The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration.”
Cagayan Valley rights group slams Army for false charges vs 69 activists
“The recent slapping of trumped-up charges of kidnapping and homicide against us 69 individuals bares the despotic and authoritarian nature of this regime.”
Lunatics
Women’s partylist group marks ‘15 years of struggle, service, gains’
“We aspire for equal changes for women, we want to be free of the patriarchal society, we want a stop to violence against women, to the whammy of soaring prices, to the rape of the Motherland.”
‘Trapos’ will get no votes from women, says Gabriela
“How can women expect that the exploitation of women workers will be addressed by these men who are aspiring to be elected government leaders, when they themselves are exploiters of women?”