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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'...
More than 300 workers march to Mendiola to express solidarity with terminated PAL workers.
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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...
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 RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) expressed full support for the workers of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) who held a work stoppage, Sept. 27 in protest of the impending massive layoff. More than 300 members of the Philippine...
PRESS RELEASE 13 June 2011 MANILA -- Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno expressed support for Philippine Airlines workers’ struggle to defend their jobs and go on strike if the national flag carrier hires contractual workers to fill up several positions vacated by...
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?
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
Both PALEA and FASAP are seeking to finally ink a new, improved CBA with PAL. But PALEA has been met with mass termination notices, while FASAP has been forced to file a notice of strike as PAL firmly refuses to put the discriminatory retirement provision on the negotiating table.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The consultation called by Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano with union leaders of PALEA and FASAP last Tuesday turned into a preliminary meeting of the House Committee on Labor and Employment. Attended by 12 representatives (10...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“If you can tie our hands with an AJ (assumption of jurisdiction), please tie the hands, too, of the PAL management with regard to their discrimination and violations of the Labor Code,” Robert Anduiza, FASAP president, appealed to the Department of Labor.
As the controversy over the mass resignation of Philippine Airlines’ pilots since last Saturday rages on, labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno called on President Aquino to investigate PAL owner Lucio Tan’s profits and anti-labor schemes, saying labor issues are behind...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The mass resignation of PAL pilots, the notice of strike filed by the cabin crew union, the struggle of ground employees against mass termination and contractualization -- all of these are interrelated. “It all stems from Lucio Tan’s moves to increase his profits even more by intensifying the exploitation of all his employees in the aviation industry.”
Related story: As Though 11-Year CBA Suspension Not Enough, PAL Employees Face Layoffs, Contractualization
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.
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