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Strong Mass Actions, Not Just Legal Redress, Urged vs Labor Rights Violations in PAL
Strong Mass Actions, Not Just Legal Redress, Urged vs Labor Rights Violations in PAL
By MARYA SALAMAT
Many labor and partylist groups in the country view the labor department’s approval of PAL management’s outsourcing and retrenchment plan as a go-signal as well for an even more intensified contractualization of employment arrangements all over the country.
PAL A Flag-Carrier of Unprecedented Anti-Labor Rulings?
PAL A Flag-Carrier of Unprecedented Anti-Labor Rulings?
By MARYA SALAMAT
Under the plan approved by the Department of Labor and Employment, PAL would outsource the in-flight catering, call center reservations and airport services (passenger, cargo and ramp handling) departments to “third-party providers” , eVentus PLDT and Skylogistics, two of which, employees revealed are Lucio Tan dummies if not directly under his group’s Macro Asia.
Broad Alliance Bats for Zero Toll Fee Increase, Govt Takeover and Subsidy of Toll Roads
Broad Alliance Bats for Zero Toll Fee Increase, Govt Takeover and Subsidy of Toll Roads
By MARYA SALAMAT
Leaders and representatives of commuters, drivers, workers, transport workers and transport operators including pier-based truckers and bus companies, an association of independent oil companies and a legal expert banded together to oppose the impending toll fee hike.
News in Pictures: Hong Kong OFWs Want ‘Rude’ Labor Attaché Fired
News in Pictures: Hong Kong OFWs Want ‘Rude’ Labor Attaché Fired
In a press conference on Tuesday, United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-Migrante-HK) exposed the rude and insensitive treatment of Labor Attache to Hong Kong Romulo Salud towards an OFW in distress.
‘Protest Center’ Marks Struggle of ABS-CBN Employees for Their Rights
‘Protest Center’ Marks Struggle of ABS-CBN Employees for Their Rights
By MARYA SALAMAT
Union hits delaying tactics and labor rights violations of ABS CBN. Labor centers slam government proposal to further relax labor laws.
Labor Leader Found Innocent, Freed After 3 Years in Prison
Labor Leader Found Innocent, Freed After 3 Years in Prison
By MARYA SALAMAT
The military's star witness finally appeared in court only to say that he does not even know Vincent Borja.
News in Pictures: IJM Workers Picket in front of ABS-CBN
News in Pictures: IJM Workers Picket in front of ABS-CBN
Starting October 12, the picket in front of ABS-CBN network's Sgt. Esguerra gate will serve as protest center of the Internal Job Market Workers Union (IJMWU) to further pressure the network management to reinstate the 114 illegally dismissed workers and to hold certification elections, following the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) decision on their case.
DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action
DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action
By MARYA SALAMAT
Now that the assumption of jurisdiction order has taken away the flight attendants' right to strike, they are left with no recourse but to appeal to the media and the Filipino riding public “to join us and await how this new government will resolve the labor dispute.”
Filipino Educators Demand for Just Compensation, Humane Working Conditions on World Teachers’ Day
Filipino Educators Demand for Just Compensation, Humane Working Conditions on World Teachers’ Day
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The meager salary of teachers remains as one of the most pressing concerns confronting Philippine education.
More Motorcycles Mean More Mishaps
More Motorcycles Mean More Mishaps
Public utility drivers in the Philippines lament the seeming lack of government support and regard for their sector, but the country’s statisticians at least seem to give them due credit.
For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers — and Their Buses — Are Key to Safe Travel
For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers — and Their Buses — Are Key to Safe Travel
For the bigger bus companies plying the provincial routes to and from the National Capital Region, safety appears important enough that their regular drivers and conductors are given periodic trainings on road and driving safety. The regularity ranges from monthly to quarterly to twice a year.
Strike Defies Assumption of Jurisdiction Order in RP’s Largest Palm Oil Company
Strike Defies Assumption of Jurisdiction Order in RP’s Largest Palm Oil Company
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers in Filipinas Palm Oil Industries launched a strike after months of negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement hit a deadlock, despite an assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) order from the labor department. A first strike in defiance of AJ under the Aquino administration.
The Hidden Lives of Bus Drivers, Wrongly Accused as Philippines’s ‘Road Monsters’
The Hidden Lives of Bus Drivers, Wrongly Accused as Philippines’s ‘Road Monsters’
By MARYA SALAMAT
SPECIAL REPORT The public and government officials, among them President Aquino, always blame drivers each time a deadly bus accident happens. What they don’t know or chose to ignore is that bus drivers and conductors are working under severe conditions imposed by greedy operators and ignored by government regulators, thus allowing these mishaps to happen in the first place. Sidebar: For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers -- and Their Buses -- Are Key to Safe Travel | More Motorcycles Mean More Mishaps
[Video] 100 Days of Noynoy Aquino: Where’s the Change?
[Video] 100 Days of Noynoy Aquino: Where’s the Change?
[Video] Where’s the Change?
Peasants Killed, Yet Not Even a Single Hectare of Land Distributed
Peasants Killed, Yet Not Even a Single Hectare of Land Distributed
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Farmers' group Kilusan ng Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said human rights violations and no land distribution even in haciendas under agrarian dispute characterize the first 100 days of the Aquino presidency.
Noynoy, DOLE Chief Asked to Resolve 8-Year Strike at Nestlé
Noynoy, DOLE Chief Asked to Resolve 8-Year Strike at Nestlé
By MARYA SALAMAT
The striking Nestlé workers had asked the new president as soon as he was inaugurated to help resolve the issues that had brought them to their nearly nine-year strike.
PALEA Celebrates 64th Anniversary Amid Turbulent Times at PAL
PALEA Celebrates 64th Anniversary Amid Turbulent Times at PAL
By MARYA SALAMAT
Both PALEA and FASAP are seeking to finally ink a new, improved CBA with PAL. But PALEA has been met with mass termination notices, while FASAP has been forced to file a notice of strike as PAL firmly refuses to put the discriminatory retirement provision on the negotiating table.
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