By DEE AYROSO
Supervening condition
Tags: Ecop
Labor decry ‘kaning baboy’ wage hike
KMU and Ibon research group said the P10 ($0.22) wage hike approved in Metro Manila is puny compared to what the workers’ families need to cope with price hikes; to what the wage needs to regain after decades-long erosion; and compared to the growth in labor productivity.
Workers imprisoned for exercise of union rights
By MARYA SALAMAT
Who says lady justice is blindfolded and does not favor anyone? While Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains “detained” at the St. Luke’s Hospital, two Karnation workers died in jail and 18 were imprisoned for three years for conducted a strike.
ECOP’s ‘tripartism’ call denounced as dangerous, deceptive
By MARYA SALAMAT
Tony Pascual of NAFLU-KMU warned all labor groups in the country to beware of the employers’ renewed calls for tripartism, a “loaded dice that seeks to favour the capitalists in every roll”.
Sidebar: Dolefil hikes profits by repressing progressive union, said a labor federation
Labor group slams Aquino for siding with employers, rejecting legislated wage hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
In the ECOP national conference, Aquino said his government has “no intention of asking Congress to legislate an across-the-board increase in wages.”