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PAL’s Pilot Woes, Labor Disputes ‘a Direct Result of Lucio Tan’s Profiteering, Abuse of Workers’

By MARYA SALAMAT
The mass resignation of PAL pilots, the notice of strike filed by the cabin crew union, the struggle of ground employees against mass termination and contractualization -- all of these are interrelated. “It all stems from Lucio Tan’s moves to increase his profits even more by intensifying the exploitation of all his employees in the aviation industry.”

Bulatlat Staff | Aug 3, 2010

As Though 11-Year CBA Suspension Not Enough, PAL Employees Face Layoffs, Contractualization

By MARYA SALAMAT
Philippine Airlines has announced that it would spin-off three 'non-core business' to stave off losses. However, the 3,000 employees who are about to lose their jobs and progressive labor center KMU believe that it is a company ploy to maximize profits by depriving the workers of their tenure, their just pay, and union rights.

Marya Salamat | Jul 17, 2010

ABS-CBN Defends Firing of 41 Workers (So Far)

By MARYA SALAMAT
The network said it is “not dismissing or retrenching employees.” Instead, it describes the dismissals as an “ongoing process.”

Bulatlat Staff | Jul 15, 2010

News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Fires More Workers Who Rejected Contractualization

Broadcasting giant ABS-CBN has fired more workers from its so-called "Internal Job Market," leaders of the workers' union said Thursday. The number of dismissed workers of ABS-CBN IJM now total 32, up from the 25 since the last firing.

Bulatlat Staff | Jul 8, 2010

Trampling on Workers’ Rights No Way to Grow an Economy- Leila de Lima

By MARYA SALAMAT
“For too long, the rights of workers, laborers and employees have been trampled upon because of the economic interests of a few,” said outgoing CHR Chairwoman Leila de Lima, who is transferring to a new position as Justice Secretary in the incoming Aquino administration.

Marya Salamat | Jun 25, 2010

ABS-CBN’s Employees Told: Regularization or Termination? Sign Waiver First

By MARYA SALAMAT
After more than a year of fighting for the recognition of their union and for their regularization, ABS CBN workers are now being offered regular status. But it comes with a price, which includes turning their back on their union.

Marya Salamat | Jun 19, 2010

Meager Wages Highlight Need for a New Economic Policy

By MARYA SALAMAT
A foreign investment-led, export-led growth economic model never led to genuine, sustainable development nor to the betterment of the living and working conditions of the country's working population.

Marya Salamat | Jun 10, 2010

Govt’s New Statistical Trick Hides Job Losses

The government will happily announce drastically lower unemployment rates this June. But this is only because it changed the way it counts the country’s jobless, causing them to statistically disappear. BY SANDRA NICOLAS Bulatlat.com The Arroyo administration has a...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 18, 2005

The Blood in Your Coffee (and Milk) Thickens: Nestlé Replaces Union on Strike, Continues to Flout SC Decision

By MARYA SALAMAT
There is blood in your coffee - This aptly describes Nescafe and other Nestle products after the series of violent attacks on the Nestle workers' picket line, the death of 10 striking workers due to poverty and illnesses, and the political killing of Diosdado Fortuna, union president. And yet, eight years later, the management still refuses to budge, despite a Supreme Court ruling favoring the workers.

Marya Salamat | May 8, 2010

After the Herrera Law Weakened Workers’ Rights, Another Labor Code Revision in the Offing?

By MARYA SALAMAT
Previous revisions in the Labor Code have served to deprive workers of their hard-won rights. Now, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines are pushing for more.

Marya Salamat | May 1, 2010

ABS-CBN’s Own Employees Are Not Kapamilya?

By MARYA SALAMAT
One of the Philippines’ leading and most profitable broadcasting network, which claims to regard everybody as “kapamilya”, disowns its employees on the grounds that they are working for another entity, ABS-CBN IJM.

Marya Salamat | Apr 19, 2010

Workers Slam Dole, the Fruit Company, for Anti-Union Moves

By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers from Dole Philippines’s union have been staging weekly protests to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement with its workers.”

Marya Salamat | Apr 6, 2010

The Other Morong Detainees: In Jail Since 2007 Strike, Workers May Soon Be Freed

By MARYA SALAMAT
The 20 were arrested in 2007, after they went on strike while employed at Karnation Industries Inc (Pansy Accessories), a maker of home decor and accessories. They complained about low salaries and benefits.

Marya Salamat | Mar 17, 2010

Workers Assail Delayed Wages, Mining Firm Refuses to Implement Agreement

By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The rank-and-file employees of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) picketed the general office of the company to demand payment of delayed wages. Headed by the Lepanto...

Northern Dispatch | Mar 15, 2010

Download: Hunger, Repression, and Resistance — Workers’ Condition Under the Nine Years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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Bulatlat Staff | Mar 12, 2010

Despite SSL-3, Gov’t Health Workers Still Struggle for Better Wages

By MARYA SALAMAT
In the Philippines, the bulk of employed health workers and professionals are in the public sector. But over the years, the effect of government neglect on health, such as low wages and deplorable working conditions of health workers, coupled with the government’s active labor export policy, have combined to shrink the number of the country’s employed health professionals and workers.

Marya Salamat | Feb 22, 2010

Refund RFID Fees, Transport Groups Urge LTO

By MARYA SALAMAT
A hundred members of Piston and the Alliance of Private Motorists against RFID marched from Edsa-Kamias to picket the offices of LTO in East Avenue last Wednesday to press for this demand. They are questioning the LTO’s seeming reluctance to refund the motorists and the LTO officers’ conflicting statements about the status of the money.

Marya Salamat | Feb 7, 2010

Douglas Dumanon: A Brave, Committed Activist and Labor Leader

By MARYA SALAMAT
Although Douglas Dumanon hailed from a middle-class family, he joined and served without hesitation the struggle of the toiling masses, especially that of the workers and the urban poor.

Marya Salamat | Feb 4, 2010

Bulatlat Live: Mendiola Massacre, 23 Years Later

Click here to read past Bulatlat stories on Mendiola Massacre Mendiola Massacre: 23 Years Later Click here for Bulatlat's full coverage of the 10-day Lakbayan-National Peasant Caravan that preceded today's commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the Mendiola...

Bulatlat Staff | Jan 22, 2010

Military Continues Harassment of Leftists, 2 Activists Are Latest Targets

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Two activists have complained that the Philippine military has been harassing them, the latest in a series of similar intimidations apparently aimed at forcing activists to spy against militant groups for the armed forces.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jan 18, 2010

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