Labor Day 2015 | Workers want Aquino out
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Ronalyn V. Olea | May 5, 2015
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#BulatlatAsks | How is your work situation under the Aquino administration?
#BulatlatAsks | How is your work situation under the Aquino administration?
Bulatlat.com asked people at the Liwasang Bonifacio Labor Day program about the status of their employment under President Aquino.
Labor Day 2015 | A Red, hot day at the park
Labor Day 2015 | A Red, hot day at the park
The heat was not so oppressive compared to the Aquino government policies, said the protesters.
GMA-7 lays off workers despite $64-M profits
GMA-7 lays off workers despite $64-M profits
“What kind of journalism can we expect from media organizations that treat news as a commodity, their workers as disposable currency and their audience as unthinking consumers?”
Labor Day 2015 | Workers, progressive groups unite in call for Aquino’s ouster
Labor Day 2015 | Workers, progressive groups unite in call for Aquino’s ouster
“The longer he remains there, the longer would our natural resources be plundered, our working people put at risk, our tillers denied of their land, our people denied of affordable utilities and social services.”
Labor Day 2015 | Workers, employees call for union organizing
Labor Day 2015 | Workers, employees call for union organizing
“Amid conditions of low wages, lack of job security, exploitative setup victimizing women, health issues, we can assert our calls and demand that the government responds to our problems if we have a union."
Agricultural workers get slave-like wages, federation says
Agricultural workers get slave-like wages, federation says
The national federation of agricultural workers fears that sugar workers would be paid even less this crop year as the tariff for imported sugar would go down to just five percent because of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.
Labor Day to be marked by protests by different workers’ groups
Labor Day to be marked by protests by different workers’ groups
A mural depicting President Aquino and Uncle Sam in full battle gear aboard an airborne drone, besieged by protests, and a 12-foot effigy of Aquino as Commandeath-in-chief would be the main symbols of protest this May 1st.
Pooled editorial | Organize, organize!
Pooled editorial | Organize, organize!
Not only the lives and livelihood of journalists and media workers are at stake here but also press freedom. What kind of journalism can we expect from media organizations that treat news as a commodity, their workers as disposable currency and their audience as unthinking consumers?
‘Spare us from outsourcing’ – bank employees
‘Spare us from outsourcing’ – bank employees
“This is about the future of our families and the future of the next generation’s bank employees.”
Call center employees form first BPO union in the country
Call center employees form first BPO union in the country
They have been demanding a black and white assurance that their wages and benefits, tenure and working conditions under West, would remain, or improve, under Alorica.
Japanese banana firm concedes to workers, revokes piece-rate scheme
Japanese banana firm concedes to workers, revokes piece-rate scheme
“This victory is a lesson to Sumifru and all capitalists that you cannot impose exploitative and unjust policies on your workers without facing resistance."
‘Not K+12 but nat’l industrialization to solve joblessness’ – KMU
‘Not K+12 but nat’l industrialization to solve joblessness’ – KMU
“The Aquino government wants to make the production of cheap labor even more systematic with the K+12.”
Workers, youth groups rally to save Mary Jane, demand reforms
Workers, youth groups rally to save Mary Jane, demand reforms
“All public officials who claim to be serving Filipinos should echo the call to save Mary Jane’s life.”
Bank employees raise red flag on HSBC outsourcing scheme
Bank employees raise red flag on HSBC outsourcing scheme
“This anti-worker scheme, implemented by the bank with the connivance of BSP, only favors employers by saving on labor cost.”
Health workers dance vs privatization, contractualization
Health workers dance vs privatization, contractualization
Health workers from various regions joined the protest against the privatization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center, and for wage hikes.
Workers form Aquino Resign alliance
Workers form Aquino Resign alliance
“Mamasapano is just the tipping point for many workers. We want Aquino removed for pressing down wages, promoting contractual employment, violating workers’ rights to form unions and hold strikes, and other crimes.”
Thousands of banana growers decry wage cuts under new piece-rate system
Thousands of banana growers decry wage cuts under new piece-rate system
“We are already earning little and working more than 12-hour shifts. Now under the piece rate system, we earn even less.”
‘Union is workers’ potent weapon vs attacks on wages’ — KMU
‘Union is workers’ potent weapon vs attacks on wages’ — KMU
Less than one in every ten wage and salary workers in the Philippines belong to a union. And of these few unionists, even fewer, only 12 percent, have collective bargaining agreements, which give them slightly better wages and work condition than those prescribed by law.
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