“This is a clear attack on the democratic rights of unionists and workers who are fighting for legitimate rights.”
Group lambasts plan to deploy military, police units against union offices
Category: Labor & Employment
Groups bat for aid for agricultural workers
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)’s Bureau of Workers Concerns (BWSC) has so far given P1,000 cash subsidy for 49,267 sugar workers, or only seven percent of the 700,000 sugar workers in the country.
Labor Day ‘surrender’ of 16 ‘Reds’ staged – groups
Labor group Defend Coca-Cola Workers reported cases of harassment against as early as January of this year, when Coca-Cola management brought workers to Fort Sto. Domingo, Santa Rosa, and Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba, for anti-union seminars.
Rage despite physical distance’ | Groups assail gov’t failure to aid Filipino workers amid pandemic
“We mourn behind the face mask. We rage over the token relief promised but not received. We rage despite the physical and social distance.”
BPO workers lament company’s lack of compassion amid COVID-19
Since the declaration of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), BIEN has been calling out on BPO companies and the government to protect the safety of the workers. Still the lack of proper transport service, inadequate near site accommodation and limited work-from-home arrangement continue to threaten many BPO workers from job loss or even in being forced to be on a “floating status.”
Harassment vs. Coca-Cola workers continues amid COVID-19 pandemic
Defend Coca-Cola Workers described the incident as a “clear case of harassment and anti-union practice”, calling it “shameful and infuriating” that Coca-Cola would “collude with the AFP and PNP to take advantage of the hunger, fear and struggle faced by many due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Coca-cola workers face harassment, red-tagging amid lockdown
“It’s disheartening that while workers are uniting to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, towards just compensation, and against widespread lay-offs, NTF-ELCAC is hard at work oppressing workers’ rights.”
No proper lodging for stay-in workers of Laguna food manufacturer
“They are using the crisis to worsen the workers’ condition and exploit them, knowing that they have nowhere else to turn to.”
‘Inaccessible,’ ‘exclusionary’ DOLE cash assistance criticized
Four in ten of the almost 2,000 respondents on their online survey claimed they haven’t received any assistance yet from DOLE due to inefficiencies in its process, while 23 percent claimed their applications were not processed by their respective employers.
‘No work, no pay’ for GMA 7 talents
“TAG expresses its strong disappointment at this lousy treatment of the network’s talents, our colleagues, the network’s biggest assets, and yet, these are the very same people with no hazard pay nor allowance during these times.”
Economic relief for workers urged amid COVID-19
The workers need economic packages such as a month’s worth of salary that should be subsidized by the government or their company, moratorium on electricity and water bill collections or one month subsidy for these utilities.