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“Our fellow workers have died, and will continue dying in factories found violating labor standards and occupational and safety standards, if accountability and justice continue to be elusive.”
“Management is claiming that the company is losing money but showed no proof to back up its claim.”
“Through standards only a few foreign corporations could comply to, and through selling vehicles only they could manufacture, jeepney operators are subjected to the monopoly of these corporations, and they would be mired in debt.”
Aside from KMU-SMR, other regional chapters of the KMU have a standing complaint against the Republic of the Philippines with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in relation to military-instigated attacks on unions, unionists and workers.
Some HTI fire survivors shared that they had crawled on bodies of workers who appeared to be unconscious at the second floor.
“The lack of concrete measures from the labor department to address and prevent workplace tragedies is appalling.”
The "Government has always been wary of providing the people with much needed support but is ever ready to ensure the profit of foreign investors through various forms of incentives including providing sovereign guarantees to private multinational corporations.”
Her one chance now to leave the death row rests on successfully prosecuting her recruiters in the Philippines.
“Clearly, the labor department has not yet taken concrete steps to fulfill the President’s commitment.”
More than half a million government employees are non-regulars who are classified under different names, suc as emergency-hired, memorandum-of-agreement (MOA) workers, job-order employees.
Their only demands are regularization on the job, immediate economic relief through a wage increase, and some benefits.
Why would an iskolar ng bayan and UP graduate who could have opted to join the rat race and chased a relatively comfortable life embraced instead the risky, challenging life of an armed revolutionary?
Before being given their end of contract (Endo) last June, the 50 ticket sellers who were dismissed and the 70 who were renewed but on shorter period were regularly being signed up for six-month work contracts by the MRT Corporation.
Insecure job tenure perpetuates poverty and exploitation.
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“It takes too long to process cases where the complainants are poor and the suspects are rich and it almost always decides in favor of the latter.”
"DCMM agency does not exercise control over the performance of the work of the said employees. Neither does it own the products and the equipment used in production."
“We are hopeful today that we can attain the change we have longed for.”
“Management has the capacity to grant the Union’s proposal. The issue now is the Management’s willingness to grant the rank-and-file employees’ reasonable and affordable package proposal.”
Many of the company’s longshoremen have worked for SIDC for 31 years but remained as non-regular workers.
“President Duterte’s order is clear, and we are going to implement that [ending contractualization] with Usec Joel Maglunsod.”- Labor Sec. Sylvester Bello III
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