Groups lambast non-inclusion of salary increase for gov’t employees
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Call center employees call on colleagues to get organized
Call center employees call on colleagues to get organized
SPECIAL REPORT: They are the voice workers who don’t have a voice, or a say, in how they are being treated by companies in the industry.
Related story: Defying prohibitions, call center employees gravitate toward their association
Defying prohibitions, call center workers gravitate toward association
Defying prohibitions, call center workers gravitate toward association
“When they say go to work, you can’t say anything. We have work on Philippine holidays. We have work on US holidays… In the end we don’t really have holidays.”
All workers’ unity for P16,000 minimum wage formed
All workers’ unity for P16,000 minimum wage formed
“Social justice dictates that those who create the nation’s wealth be granted at least their right to a minimum wage amidst the increasing profits and wealth of a handful of capitalists and bureaucrats. We have every reason to believe that capitalists and the government can grant our just demand,.” – Ferdinand Gaite, Courage
Sugar workers in Negros Oriental deprived of cash bonus, social program
Sugar workers in Negros Oriental deprived of cash bonus, social program
“It is disappointing that no government agency, like DOLE, educated us on SAP [Social Amelioration Program) and its cash bonus because obviously, the millers and planters would not likely place our interest ahead of theirs.”
Attack on job security begins after Nestlè takeover of Wyeth
Attack on job security begins after Nestlè takeover of Wyeth
“We are calling for reinstatement because we should not have been dismissed in the first place. We are calling for regularization because we deserve to become regulars for the years of hard work we rendered to the company.” – Jhondel Estabaya, 33, president of SAMA-Ako (Samahan ng Manggagawang Kontraktwal) in Wyeth.
16-hour forced labor in Cebu chemical firm compels workers to strike
16-hour forced labor in Cebu chemical firm compels workers to strike
“After imposing slave-like conditions on workers, the Cenapro management is acting like a dictator in punishing workers for holding legitimate protests against such conditions. It not only wants workers to suffer, it wants workers to suffer in silence.” – Kilusang Mayo Uno
Nurses call for justice to save their ‘dying’ condition
Nurses call for justice to save their ‘dying’ condition
Nurses care for sick patients, but government is not caring for them.
RMN radio workers’ strike reveals seamy side of labor laws, ‘talent’ hiring
RMN radio workers’ strike reveals seamy side of labor laws, ‘talent’ hiring
“Ninety-nine percent of the guidelines during strikes expressly provide what the workers are prohibited to do. There is no corresponding magnitude of responsibility that refers to how the management should behave when a strike is declared.”
Workers seek to end ‘endo’ as they mark World Day for Decent Work
Workers seek to end ‘endo’ as they mark World Day for Decent Work
The word “Endo,” short for “end of contract,” was declared in “Sawikaan 2014: Pagpili ng Salita ng Taon” as word of the year. This word leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of Filipino workers whose various groups united to protest the incidences of “Endo” on Oct. 7, world day for decent work.
Global electronics supplier NXP signs compromise CBA with union
Global electronics supplier NXP signs compromise CBA with union
NXP Semiconductors Phils. agrees to hike workers wage by 5.25-percent for 2014, and 3.5-percent for 2015 and 2016. It reinstated only half of the 24 union officers it fired last May 5.
Radio workers go on strike to defend their jobs, union
Radio workers go on strike to defend their jobs, union
“We will not make compromises on the matter of our job security and our right to unionize. We will not allow RMN to accomplish its ultimate objective of busting our union and depriving us of our rights arising from being unionized.”
Chemical workers call for support against union harassment, 16 hour-work
Chemical workers call for support against union harassment, 16 hour-work
The company suspended Collective Bargaining Agreement talks after the union and other workers held a protest action on July 16 denouncing the 16-hour work and forced overtime in the company.
4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
4-day workweek ‘unhealthy’ – labor groups
The scheme will deny workers at least four days’ worth of salary in a month, in exchange for a dubious overtime pay, which may not adequately pay for their health care should they become sick or meet accidents due to fatigue.
State workers denounce ‘Aquino dictatorship’
State workers denounce ‘Aquino dictatorship’
“We say no to President Aquino’s dictatorship. We have had enough of pay cuts, taxes and lay-offs, which best describe the situation of the more than 1.4 million government employees for the last four years.”-- Ferdinand Gaite, Courage president
Radio reporters, employees slam harassment, network refusal to negotiate CBA
Radio reporters, employees slam harassment, network refusal to negotiate CBA
Workers accuse state security forces as behind the blatant surveillance on their activities. They said these coincided with their struggle to assert their right to renegotiate for a new CBA with the RMN management.
Workers of Hoya Glass decry union-busting moves of management
Workers of Hoya Glass decry union-busting moves of management
“The Hoya Glass management told us that they had to close down to avoid incurring losses. But according to the company’s financial statement for 2010 to 2012, which was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it has in fact registered bigger profits.”
Supreme Court urged to stop tax on state employees’ benefits
Supreme Court urged to stop tax on state employees’ benefits
Government employees said that it is beyond the power and authority of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to tax their benefits without an enabling law, and had asked the Supreme Court to prevent the “unlawful and unwarranted imposition of taxes” on their benefits.
As they assert rights to a union, port workers battle illegal dismissal
As they assert rights to a union, port workers battle illegal dismissal
MPSI and Sasin, the employers, did not respect union rights and instead forced workers out of the company to prevent them from organizing more workers. -- Carl Anthony Olalo, president, Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Masters Port Services, Inc.
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