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LaborThe Philippine Labor SituationAs the global economic crisis reaches new lows this first half and with worse to follow in the coming months or even years, the Philippine labor force is being battered by one gut-level whammy after another. ( categories: )
Women Workers Unite, Form Alliance for Justice, Union RightsWomen workers, widows and relatives of labor leaders killed under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo government stood together to demand justice and an end to trade union repression. BY RONALYN V. OLEA ( categories: )
Workers, Urban Poor Skip Meals to Cope with the CrisisWhile the poor try everything from skipping meals to walking hours to the workplace just to cope with the economic crisis, all the government does is to distribute dole outs. BY THE CENTER FOR TRADE UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ( categories: )
Women Workers in Shoe Factory Decry Sexual Harassment, Low Wages, Union BustingIt was not in the job description but kissing the drunk owner of an 18-year-old rubber boots and shoes factory in Muntinlupa was the first thing women workers had to do when they report for work at six in the morning. They lined up not just to have the timecard punched. They lined up to be harassed. BY JANG MONTES ( categories: )
Low Wages Show the Sorry State of the NationLow wages show the sorry state of the nation In an era of double-digit inflation and weekly oil price increases, a yearly wage increase of measly amounts (that cannot even buy a kilo of NFA rice) will simply never do, said KMU (Kilusang Mayo Uno or May 1st Movement). Year on year, the minimum wage rate hardly creeps near to touching distance with living wage levels. ( categories: )
Justice Eludes Retrenched EPZA WorkersJustice is still elusive for the 10 retrenched workers from the Baguio Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA), who were dismissed in March last year. BY CYE REYES ( categories: )
Employers Can Grant Much-Needed Wage HikeA wage hike is urgent amid soaring rice and food prices, rising transport costs, and power and rate hikes, and businesses are fully able to grant the wage hike demanded by workers, according to independent research group IBON. BY IBON FOUNDATION ( categories: )
Roadblocks Fail to Stop Protesting Davao WorkersOn their way to Davao city, workers from the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte braved road inspections, ’surprise checkpoints’ before they were able to join the Labor Day rally to express their demands for the P125 across-the-board wage increase, for government to bring down prices of basic commodities, including rice. BY GRACE S. UDDIN ( categories: )
Negros Labor Official Urges ‘Emergency Relief’ for WorkersThe Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board VI labor representative Winnie Sancho last week urged employers and the local government units to give emergency relief to workers to stave off the debilitating effects of high prices of rice and other basic commodities. BY KARL G. OMBION ( categories: )
One Street with Different Stories of Unionism and Struggle‘Not without a fight’ seems to be the motto of many militant unions against efforts to bust their unions; they basically always put up a fight for wages, jobs and rights. BY MARYA SALAMAT ( categories: )
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