Less than one in every ten wage and salary workers in the Philippines belong to a union. And of these few unionists, even fewer, only 12 percent, have collective bargaining agreements, which give them slightly better wages and work condition than those prescribed by law.
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'...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Anakpawis Party Rep. Rafael Mariano said the SC's reversal of its ruling on the FASAP case completes the "triple whammy of attack'" against PAL pilots, cabin crew and airport workers by various courts, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Malacañang.
By MARYA SALAMAT
By October 1, regular PAL workers are under threat of being locked out of PAL, as the Lucio Tan Group of companies would start its outsourcing plan in earnest.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Mar Roxas’ proposed budget slashed by 38-percent the government subsidy on MRT for 2012—from P6.9 billion ($162.7 million) to P4.29-billion ($101.15 million), despite reports of annual increases in passenger load.
PRESS STATEMENT President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s continuing assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) over the labor dispute in Philippine Airlines is prolonging the injustice being committed to workers in the country’s flag carrier. The PAL management is using the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Judging from the first six months in office of the Aquino government, there seems to be no relief in sight for workers who have been suffering from record joblessness, runaway prices of basic goods and services, and violent attacks on their democratic rights.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The real test of whether Aquino’s assumption of jurisdiction order is pro-worker or pro-Lucio Tan lies in his future decision on Tan’s contractualization through mass layoffs and outsourcing scheme,” said Joselito Ustarez, vice-chairman of KMU.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Many labor and partylist groups in the country view the labor department’s approval of PAL management’s outsourcing and retrenchment plan as a go-signal as well for an even more intensified contractualization of employment arrangements all over the country.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Under the plan approved by the Department of Labor and Employment, PAL would outsource the in-flight catering, call center reservations and airport services (passenger, cargo and ramp handling) departments to “third-party providers” , eVentus PLDT and Skylogistics, two of which, employees revealed are Lucio Tan dummies if not directly under his group’s Macro Asia.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Now that the assumption of jurisdiction order has taken away the flight attendants' right to strike, they are left with no recourse but to appeal to the media and the Filipino riding public “to join us and await how this new government will resolve the labor dispute.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
In the short-term, this may close the gap in air transport service that a strike in the Philippine flag carrier would create, but at the expense of sabotaging the demands of Filipino workers.
Bulatlat.com Gabriela Women’s Party yesterday threw its support to the 1,600 strong protesting Philippine Airline flight attendants, two-thirds of them are women. “No woman deserves to have her reproductive rights taken away from her by her employer,” Gabriela...
Press Release 1 August 2010 This was labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno’s call to President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III after the chief executive “scolded” both the Philippine Airlines pilots who refused to report for duty last Saturday and the PAL management...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Philippine Airlines has announced that it would spin-off three 'non-core business' to stave off losses. However, the 3,000 employees who are about to lose their jobs and progressive labor center KMU believe that it is a company ploy to maximize profits by depriving the workers of their tenure, their just pay, and union rights.
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...
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