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“Workers’ basic needs are being neglected; workers’ basic rights are being violated; and workers’ dignity is being attacked.”
“They do not even have to promise. They just need to do what is just and right.”
“Our fight for the rights of media workers was long and winding, but we won. Sacrifices had been made, lives have been drastically changed, but we have persevered because we knew that we were on the side of justice.”
“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.”
“It is also dismaying how the NLRC has robbed the RMN Davao workers of their most potent weapon and constitutionally guaranteed right in their search for humane and just employment..."
“Workers’ basic needs are being neglected; workers’ basic rights are being violated; and workers’ dignity is being attacked.”
“If not for our collective action, management would not be forced to provide some of our demands.”
In 10 regions, wages are lower than P290.
So far, only two units have been delivered in an approved fleet management group. Its machines overheated and conked out in less than one month.
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Esperidion Cabaltera, president of the MWLU-II-NAFLU-KMU, ascribed their victory to the “unified resoluteness and courage of the workers” who, he said, have long been experiencing injustices in Musahamat.
She entered the National Labor Federation of Labor Unions (NAFLU) as a graduating student doing her practicum for a secretarial course; little did she know then that she would learn more than doing office work.
“The DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is sleeping on the case of Musahamat workers and it can no longer pretend that nothing is happening. By being silent, it is being complicit in the apparent campaign to silence the workers in Pantukan by any means possible, including murder.”
“The government should not wait for another workplace tragedy to happen before it acts on workplace safety issues.”
The management wants to implement a two-tier wage increase, with only 50 percent being guaranteed and the other half dependent on the company’s and employee’s performance.
'How will we develop our science and technology if the people in this sector are not being given opportunities to develop?'
'The government should look after its S&T (science and technology) workers.'
The Revised Penal Code provides that a quit claim will not affect the criminal liability of the respondents.
"The more than 72 workers who died certainly deserve better.”
“This is like a basketball game, and President Aquino wants to pass this law in the last two minutes of the game.”
“It is apparent that Chinabank and Planters Development Bank intend to ease out regular employees as certain bank functions in Chinabank Savings are already outsourced or being handled by contractual employees."
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