“[Article 280 of the] Labor Code clearly states that we should be regular employees from Day 1 because the work we’re doing is necessary and desirable to Monde Nissin.”
Month: August 2019
Journalist, rights defender shot, seriously wounded in Ifugao
For weeks before the shooting, elements of the 54th IB frequented Lee’s residence as well as the offices of IPM and Justice and Peace Advocates of Ifugao, of which Lee is also a member.
QC residents push for on-site development amid impending demolition
“I learned from the process that ‘wants’ of these urban poor families are what may be considered as ‘basic’ for those who are considered in the middle class.”
Ang tindig ni Mabini sa pamumuno ng Republika
Ang kapakanan ng sambayanan ang lohika ng pagpapatuloy ng paghihimagsik. Kung mawawala ang kapakanan ng bayan sa isinasakatuparan ng pamumuno at pamahalaan, mawawala na rin ang batayan at lohika ng pamumuno at paghihimagsik. Sinabi ni Mabini ang aral na ito mahigit isandaang taon na ang nakaraan.
A night of singing, solidarity, protest
“We are very hopeful that the workers’ fight will someday lead to victory as we unite with other sectors. This night of gathering and sharing our struggle proves that the state of workers in the country is not improving. Through this event, we find support in each other struggles.”
One pastor killed, another church worker harassed in 2 days
“The number of violent attacks against Christian human rights defender has alarmingly increased in the three years of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government. We hold him responsible for the escalating hostile acts being committed against all human rights defenders from civil society and people’s organizations and the church community.”
Broken
The Philippine National Police’s complaint of sedition/inciting to sedition, cyber libel, libel, obstruction of justice, and harboring a criminal against lawyers, priests, Vice-President Leni Robredo, and several opposition candidates for senator in last May’s elections is likely to make it to the courts. If it does, it will be one more instance that critics of…
A second look into Negros Oriental killings
In 2015, on the fifth year of the P-Noy administration’s counterinsurgency program (Oplan Bayanihan), the Armed Forces of the Philippines declared the province of Negros Oriental as a “conflict-manageable and ready for further development” area. The implication was that the state security forces had succeeded in weakening the presence/influence of the New People’s Army in…
Minority bloc pushes for exemption of journalists as witnesses in anti-drug ops
Although this law has been amended by Republic Act no. 10640 in 2014, journalists are still being pressured into signing their names as witnesses in anti-drug operations, sometimes even without them actually witnessing the operation, in exchange for the information they would need for their stories.
Negros solons alarmed with killings, impunity in the island
“The series of attacks threaten to undermine the country’s peace and order situation, the State’s failure to identify and punish the perpetrators further breeds a culture of impunity and violence.”
Martial law no solution to Negros killings – Negrenses, advocates
“I am from Mindanao, the first island where Martial Law was implemented. All the killings that is happening in Negros right now, also happened in Mindanao last 2017.”