“Workers will push for their demands for the junking of contractualization and the implementation of a National Minimum Wage in the amount of P750, amidst their worsening hunger and poverty.”
All systems go for May 1 Labor Day protests
Month: April 2016
‘Army official’s physical therapy not an alibi’ – lawyer of 2 disappeared UP studes
“Even during the time he claimed to have been going through physical therapies, he remained as the commanding officer of the 24th Infantry Battalion. The places where the two students were brought were under his jurisdiction. Anotado was in active military service and such testimony will bear no weight to the case compared to Raymond’s testimony.”
There’s more to life than single issue activism
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com In the hierarchy of political evils, single issue activism does not figure, and rightfully so. There’s less barbarism in the world because of the heroic work of individuals who never gave up fighting for their chosen advocacy in life. But we cannot deny the rise of a particular brand of…
Informal sector
TV5 employees clinch salary hike, more benefits
“If not for our collective action, management would not be forced to provide some of our demands.”
It’s all about popularity, name recall, and money
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), in a report published by interaksyon.com April 27, 2016, revealed that the candidates for president, vice president and the Senate, and their political parties have already spent P2.7 billion ($57.4 million), or an average of P54 million ($1.148 million) a day or P2.5…
Farmers bat for free irrigation services
“The government should waive payment of irrigation fees in national irrigation systems; erase all unpaid back accounts of irrigation associations, farmers in national irrigation systems; and, subsidize irrigation fees in communal irrigation systems.”
A year after stay of execution, the uncertain fate of Mary Jane Veloso continues
“Walang katumbas, walang katumbas na salapi. Sinira niya ang buhay namin.” (Money could not repay the suffering this has caused our lives.)
‘Aquino failed on promise to surface Jonas Burgos’
Aquino, when he was still senator, mentioned and assailed Jonas’ disappearance before a speech in the senate back in 2007, in commemoration of his father’s asassination.
Nalitson, naletse
Aparición | James Balao
It’s the eighth Cordillera Day since James Balao was disappeared.