NEWS RELEASE 26 April 2010 More than 50,000 workers are expected to join the actions in Metro Manila on Labor Day led by militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU). This year’s commemoration of Labor Day will highlight the workers’ presentation of the labor agenda to national candidates and labor’s assessment of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year…
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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.
KMU, Anakpawis Slam PAL’s Planned Layoff of Employees via Spin-off
News Release April 19, 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno blasted today Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) plan to spin off its three departments, saying the measure will retrench one-fourth of the airlines’ total workforce to maximize company profits rather than reduce losses. PAL has announced that it will spin off the inflight catering services, airport services…
Anakpawis Slams Wage Freeze Proposition
Press Statement April 12, 2010 Davao City — Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-Southern Mindanao) and Anakpawis Southern Mindanao labeled the proposition made by the government and other economists to freeze wage increase as a vicious practice of government that turns a blind eye to the misery of workers. “Freezing wage increase amidst the…
Workers Slam Dole, the Fruit Company, for Anti-Union Moves
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers from Dole Philippines’s union have been staging weekly protests to demand that the company “stop interfering in union matters and to stop violating its collective bargaining agreement with its workers.”
On Her 63rd Birthday: Workers Wish Prison Term for Arroyo
NEWS RELEASE April 5, 2010 A prison term starting June 30 is the wish of workers for Gloria Arroyo’s 63rd birthday today, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said. KMU also wishes that the Judicial and Bar Council, which is holding its meeting today, will not give a pleasant gift to Mrs. Arroyo, in the form…
Labor Center Demands Wage Hike, Decent Jobs Instead of Condoms for Female Workers
NEWS RELEASE 21 March 2010 More than just mulling over the distribution of female condoms, the labor department should act on the demand of Filipino workers for a nationwide wage hike and creation of decent jobs, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno said today. KMU said the plan of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)…
Women Workers Protest Inhumane Rules, Denial of Benefits in Denture Factory
NEWS RELEASE March 7, 2010 A women-dominated union in a German-owned denture factory is decrying the company’s inhumane rules and regulations which penalizes “use of obscene languange,” “loitering” and “concealment of contagious disease” via dismissal of workers. Samahan ng Manggagawa sa Zahnfabrik Philippines Inc (SMZPI), affiliated to KMU’s Alliance of Nationalist and Genuine Labor Organizations…
Steel Factory Workers in Iligan City Go On Strike vs Abusive and Delinquent Company Management
Delayed 13th month pay. Delayed and staggered payment of salaries. Delayed remittance of monthly salary deduction. Non-remittance of withholding taxes. These are only a few of the problems experienced by workers as early as 2004 in the former National Steel Corporation in Iligan City, Misamis Oriental. After five years and one day before the expiration…
Can’t Say ‘No’ to the Revolution: Douglas Vizmanos-Dumanon, 1954-2010
We in the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions-National Democratic Front of the Philippines salute the revolutionary life, struggle and contributions of Comrade Douglas Vizmanos-Dumanon! Ka Douglas, as we have come to know him, is a veteran cadre and hardworking organizer of the revolutionary trade-union movement in the country. He died due to complications caused by…
TUCP-DOLE media blitz on wage hike petition a predictable charade – KMU
Manila – Progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) today criticized the “predictable charade” being staged by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over the P75 wage hike petition in the National Capital Region, calling it a media blitz aimed at…