LTFRB’s Lizada threatens strikers, offers perks to scabs
It was Pres. Duterte himself who urged the drivers to go on a strike if they are indeed opposed to jeepney phaseout.
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It was Pres. Duterte himself who urged the drivers to go on a strike if they are indeed opposed to jeepney phaseout.
Various groups lambasted the mall conglomerate for exploitation of workers.
While public hospitals are understaffed, government fails to fill some 20,000 vacancies for health workers.
The House of Representatives has passed House Bill 6152 this week. It will allow employers to implement four-day or five-day workweek with workers still clocking in a total 48 hours of work per week. This would mean 9.6 hours to 12 work hours per day, without overtime pay.
“It’s as if they’re just playing with us workers.”
‘Mine companies let workers’ families starve while they rake in huge profits. The workers’ plight has taken a turn for the worse under Martial Law in Mindanao, given its assault on their right to express legitimate demands, form an assembly, and hold strikes.’
“We cannot be blocked by legalities that would further put workers away from their rightful demands.”
“All workers at the picket line were beaten up, even the seniors. The workers were told by the soldiers that they have to leave the picket line because it’s already Martial Law.
On May 27, the soldiers barged into the picket line of Shin Sun workers in ComVal. They asked the workers to pack up, go home, put an end to their strike so production at the fruit company can resume.
Piston said most of the country’s jeepney drivers and operators are fine with upgrading and rehabilitating the jeepneys, but not in the total scrapping of it as advocated by the Transportation department.
Almost coinciding with the two-year anniversary of Kentex factory fire was the 100th day since the HTI factory fire in Cavite.
“We want to be regularized (directly) under Harbour Centre and we have filed cases against (Grasials) agency, which has been defrauding us.”
“If not for those May 1 protests, workers will still be working longer than eight hours a day.”
Most women land jobs with low salaries and no security.
“Contractualization aggravates poverty and widens the gap between the rich and the poor.”
There are 2.3 million government employees in the Philippines, and 720,000 are non-regulars or contractual workers under different names, such as job order, emergency-hired, memorandum of agreement (MOA)-hired workers, and contract of services.
“This is a test case for the Duterte administration to bare its resolve in ending contractualization through strong intervention.”
“Any policy that does not aim to end all forms of contractualization can never be acceptable to workers.”
The ‘social justice’ issue being raised by Sec. Lopez covers most of the agenda being raised by workers.
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