By DEE AYROSO
Supervening condition
Tags: Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)
Progressive solons, workers push for nat’l minimum wage
“Truth be told, the wages of our workers have long been stunted and its purchasing power gravely diminished.”
Cobankiat urged to respect the strikers’ picket, previous agreement with union
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Johnny Cobankiat, millionaire owner of huge hardware supplier Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc., which reneged on its agreement with the workers’ union, recently received a setback. After the workers’ union relaunched their strike in front of its biggest warehouse in Parañaque City, Cobankiat asked the Regional Trial Court to…
The fight for security of tenure continues
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Campaign to support falsely-charged labor leader launched
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“I know that this is a ploy to cripple the trade union movement in Negros because of our critical position to the Aquino government.” Ronald Ian Evidente, KMU-Negros spokesman
Hire unemployed nurses in public hospitals -GWP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila – A lawmaker and a labor center are protesting against the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) call to licensed nurses, nursing graduates, and other jobseekers with healthcare backgrounds to consider the array of non-clinical, yet, medical-related job opportunities as alternate careers in the healthcare industry. DOLE secretary…
Gov’t to blame for PAL mediation talks’ collapse
Press Statement 06 September 2010 October 3 – Department of Labor and Employment secretary Rosalinda Baldoz announces that the government will assume jurisdiction over the labor dispute in the Philippine Airlines should mediation talks fail. (Assumption of jurisdiction will in effect make any strike illegal.) October 4 – PAL management spokesperson Cielo Villaluna expresses support…
Workers in Biggest Pineapple Plantation Kick-off Protests vs. Continued Union-Busting, Harassment
President Aquino urged to show teeth in enforcing rulings that hurt big firms Filipino workers from the world’s largest fruit and vegetable producer launched today a series of protests to pressure the company to abide by a Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) directive to recognize the legitimacy of the workers’ union officials and stop measures…
Candidates Urged: Support P125 Wage Hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
After two decades of falling real wages, with the last two years bereft of even a paltry wage increase despite the crisis and unmitigated price increases, the progressive labor front has once again raised the demand to legislate a P125 nationwide wage hike.
Report of ILO High-Level Mission A Cause for Serious Concern- CTUHR
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February 24 a cause of serious concern. In its report: “The Committee once again recalls the importance it attaches to the Government making all…
News in Pictures: Workers Slam ‘Emergency Employment’
Workers led by Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Anakpawis Partylist held a picket-protest on Thursday in front of the Department of Labor and Employment to slam its vain efforts to project to the public that it is assisting calamity-stricken workers by providing emergency jobs for only around 1,450 affected workers all over Luzon. KMU said…