BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the groups Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan (KMK or Movement of Women Workers and GABRIELA staged a protest action against retrenchments this afternoon at the Boy Scouts’ Circle along Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City. Some 15,000 workers in the Philippines have lost their jobs from November 2008 to…
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Despite P330-B Stimulus Package, Job Losses to Hit Around 1.2 M in 2009
Experts have described the recession as a “supercrisis”, which could be long and deep. Its impact on poor and underdeveloped economies like the Philippines is just starting to unfold. Obviously, emergency employment through a stimulus package as well as labor flexibilization and export will not do the trick. A total overhaul of the economy’s orientation…