The decision of the National Labor Relations Commission is a vindication of the workers’ right to strike and an initial step at undermining the talent system being implemented by RMN management.
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RMN radio workers’ strike reveals seamy side of labor laws, ‘talent’ hiring
“Ninety-nine percent of the guidelines during strikes expressly provide what the workers are prohibited to do. There is no corresponding magnitude of responsibility that refers to how the management should behave when a strike is declared.”
Radio workers go on strike to defend their jobs, union
“We will not make compromises on the matter of our job security and our right to unionize. We will not allow RMN to accomplish its ultimate objective of busting our union and depriving us of our rights arising from being unionized.”
Radio reporters, employees slam harassment, network refusal to negotiate CBA
Workers accuse state security forces as behind the blatant surveillance on their activities. They said these coincided with their struggle to assert their right to renegotiate for a new CBA with the RMN management.
A radio worker’s fight: A Davao Today short narrative
By MICK M. BASA Davao Today Reposted by Bulatlat.com
RMN Davao media workers go on strike
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN and MARYA SALAMAT
“Demands for decent wages cannot be put on hold, especially not with RMN doing good business, raking in huge profits.” –NUJP–Davao
Dismissed union leaders ask RMN to be true to its branding
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Organizing into a union is one of the rights of employees including those in the media and entertainment.” – Michael Rogas, union president of RMN
Radio network employees gear for strike against union-busting
By MARYA SALAMAT
The union-busting and illegal dismissals, said the union president, started since they formed a union for the radio network’s Manila operations.
Radio workers in Davao gear up for strike
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Workers of a radio station based in Davao City are gearing for a strike after the management insisted on a moratorium on increases in salaries and benefits. Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Davao Employees’ Union (RDEU), filed a notice of strike at the Department of Labor and…
Sacked Davao broadcaster wins labor case
After almost eight months of waiting, dismissed Radio Mindanao Network DXDC-Davao (RMN-DXDC Davao) station manager Mario Maximo “Dodong” Solis won the illegal dismissal case he filed against Radio Mindanao Network (RMN). Solis was fired on September 6, 2010, with RMN citing “loss of trust and confidence and willful disobedience” as bases for his termination. Solis…
Luis V. Teodoro | Truth and Consequence
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Congressional hearings are held “in aid of legislation,” and the leading members of the Senate committee on public information and mass media, and the committee on public services, made it clear last Tuesday that they did not call the heads of the news sections…