MANILA — Women workers from the Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan (KMK) demand justice for the victims of fire that razed a warehouse of the Housing Technology Industries (HTI) located inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone Authority (CEPZA) in General Trias, Cavite province. Fire broke out late afternoon of Feb. 1, Wednesday, injuring at least 100…
Day: February 2, 2017
Public school teachers slam removal of allowance
“This is a slap in our faces. We are asking for a salary increase and what we get is this.”
Another Kentex tragedy in the offing?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective In May 2015, a fire gutted the Kentex slippers factory in Valenzuela City in the National Capital Region. What shocked the nation was not the extent and amount of damage to property due to the fire. It was the number of workers killed 74 and why and how they died…