All these would cut down on the bank’s labor costs, at the expense of its long-standing employees.
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‘Spare us from outsourcing’ – bank employees
“This is about the future of our families and the future of the next generation’s bank employees.”
Bank employees raise red flag on HSBC outsourcing scheme
“This anti-worker scheme, implemented by the bank with the connivance of BSP, only favors employers by saving on labor cost.”
Asia-Pacific workers wage struggles to turn ‘formal’ rights into reality
Everywhere, restrictions on workers forming genuine unions have prompted them to do union organizing in an “underground” or clandestine way, at least, at first.
KMU slams capitalists’ unity vs. PAL workers
MEDIA RELEASE Nov 5, 2011 MANILA — Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) condemned today business groups’ statement of support for the Philippine Airlines management whose treatment of an ongoing labor dispute hasreportedly turned violent last week. “The employers’ groups are overreacting to so-called illegal acts committed by PAL workers to hide from view the…
Union leaders accused of conniving with PAL bosses in mass layoff
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — As 2,600 long-time regular workers of Philippine Air Lines find themselves locked out of PAL and out of negotiations today in the outsourcing of the airline, progressive labor groups accused the union leadership of Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA)– Gerardo Rivera and Bong Palad in the main– of conniving…
PAL Workers Wonder if Aquino Is Really Concerned About Their Plight

By MARYA SALAMAT
‘Tis the Christmas season and anxious workers at Philippine Airlines are wondering if there is cause for hope that Aquino will reverse the airline’s mass layoffs and contractualization scheme, or is the president merely helping Lucio Tan to buy time, until the peak season — and the optimum time for a workers’ strike — is over?