“We mourn behind the face mask. We rage over the token relief promised but not received. We rage despite the physical and social distance.”
Rage despite physical distance’ | Groups assail gov’t failure to aid Filipino workers amid pandemic
Tags: Kilusang Mayo Uno
Behind the fragrance of laundry soaps
Contrary to how the Pepmaco brands itself as leading surfactant manufacturing with innovative and advance technology, respiratory masks barely protect the workers.
Labor Day protest blasts ‘worst unemployment, tyranny under Duterte’
“We have the worst hunger, unemployment, killings and when we protest and organize we are called ‘criminals.’”
Workers press gov’t for national minimum wage
“As hardworking Filipinos who struggle to support our families through honorable means, we deserve no less than wages and salaries that would afford us humane living conditions. We say enough of the Duterte government’s neglect of our plight.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Workers from the public and private sectors joined forces…
Labor groups storm the streets against contractualization
“We need to continue organizing contractual workers, especially now that there have been favorable decisions released under Duterte which he just failed to implement.”
Labor rights issues intensified under two years of Duterte (Part 2)
The Philippines was among the top 10 countries across the globe to be worst for workers, according to the Global Rights Index for 2018 released last June 8 by the International Trade Union Confederation. In a scale of 1 to 5, the Philippines is a 5 with “no guarantee of rights due to the breakdown of law.
Labor dispute at Monde Nissin remains unresolved, 100 more workers at risk of dismissal
“We tried to talk to the inspectors because we were the complainants but the management, the security, prevented us from going near them.”
Crackdown intensifies | Trumped-up charges filed vs. progressive leaders
“The charges are pathetically not worth the paper they were written on.”
‘Are you joking or did you just declare war?’ KMU on Duterte’s anti-union spiel
Elmer Labog of KMU urged workers to keep organizing and forming or defending their unions, saying the plight of workers won’t improve without their own action and organization, without unions, and without genuinely pro-worker unions in particular.
‘Jail Kapunan, Enrile’ – workers’ group
“The special treatment being given to [Ret. Col,. Eduardo ] Kapunan and being denied to his co-accused further exposes the rotten judicial system in the country. It definitely bodes ill for the quest for justice in the Olalia-Alay-ay double murder case.” – Kilusang Mayo Uno
Workers enjoin public to join Protestang Bayan vs rising prices
As prices of basic products and services continue to increase, national labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno asked the public to participate in the “Protestang Bayan vs. Nagtataasang Presyo at Demolisyon.” Holding of protests is the only way Filipinos can have the chance of preventing price hikes and demolition of poor communities, Roger Soluta, KMU secretary-general, said in a statement.