“Increasing the national minimum wage is possible and not something that will burden the businesses.
Workers begin 10-day countdown to wage increase
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They work hard for the money, but are never treated right
Low wages, loans, and underemployment plague women in the labor force.
State workers demand end to contractualization
There are 2.3 million government employees in the Philippines, and 720,000 are non-regulars or contractual workers under different names, such as job order, emergency-hired, memorandum of agreement (MOA)-hired workers, and contract of services.
Labor Day protests highlight calls for wage hike, end to EnDO, US imperialism
“Workers’ basic needs are being neglected; workers’ basic rights are being violated; and workers’ dignity is being attacked.”
Labor Day 2015 | Workers want Aquino out
On Labor Day, Filipino workers call for the resignation of President Benigno Aquino III for failing to provide adequate jobs, for refusing to grant substantial wage hike, for betraying national sovereignty, among others. Photos by Dee Ayroso, Kathrina Manuel and Ronalyn V. Olea Editing by Ronalyn V. Olea Music: Awit ng Proletaryado by Tambisan sa…
Labor Day
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO If it were up to television, then there seems to be no reason for people to have strong affinity with Labor Day, let alone a clear idea of what took place on May 1, 1886 when scores of workers/unionists in the United States organized big strikes to demand that the…
Contractualization trumps workers’ rights
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Winding up two-thirds of its six-year term, the P-Noy government came under the severest criticisms on International Labor Day for its basically anti-labor policies and failure to address a broad range of national problems. The condemnation and other verbal attacks came not only from…
Workers, youth, other sectors march in thousands, slam Aquino’s anti-labor policies
“The massive unemployment among the youth is testament to the Aquino regime’s failure to bring change to the lives of Filipinos. Millions of our countrymen are hungrier than ever, with most people remaining jobless, and those with jobs are living with barely sufficient wages.” –Kabataan Party Rep. Terry Ridon
On Labor Day, Filipino workers slam ‘Aquino’s treachery’
Filipino workers staged protest actions in different parts of the country condemning the signing of the United States-Philippines Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and the US-dictated neoliberal policies on the economy. Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea in Manila, Southern Tagalog Exposure in Calamba, Noel Godinez / Northern Dispatch in Baguio, Owen Segovia Bayog in Bacolod, Carl…
Netizens want wage hike, end to contractualization
Bulatlat.com asked netizens to tweet/tag us their Labor Day wish and here are their answers.
Workers, advocates take fight to social media #May1Fight hashtag
For the first time in the Philippines, workers from various companies and labor advocates agreed to use a common hashtag to amplify workers’ voices in digital platforms.