By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main Story: More Labor Violations Discovered at Eton MANILA — Freddie Enriquez, 30, has been working in the construction sector for 13 years now. Until January 3 this year, he was “lead man” in their latest project where they had been at work for the last three years. He was part…
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More Labor Violations Discovered at Eton
By MARYA SALAMAT
It had taken ten dead construction workers and a public outcry before the labor department dispatched an inspection team to Lucio Tan’s construction sites. What they discovered were multiple violations of labor standards.
Sidebar: Covered-up Accidents, Underpayment of Wages in Big Construction Sites
As Preview to May 1 Protest, Workers Urge People to Join Day of Outrage On Apr 14
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The Filipino workers and people have every reason to be outraged by the Aquino government’s refusal to implement a substantial wage hike while allowing prices to increase unabated.” – Koalisyon ng Manggagawa at Mamamayang Pilipino (KPMM)
Workers in Japan Firms in the Philippines Also “Hit” By Disaster
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The Philippine government has been giving foreign companies, including Japanese firms, a lot of incentives and perks. We hope the government would also extend to us some help especially now that thousands of Filipino workers may be adversely affected by the disaster that hit their parent or supplier companies in Japan.” – Dexter Datu, chairman of Metalworkers Alliance of the Philippines (MWAP).
State Employees Join Call For Substantial Wage Hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Our take home pay cannot take us home anymore.”
Soldiers Still Target Children
By MARYA SALAMAT
According to the Katungod-SB report, a soldier acting as team leader interrogated the children, asking them if they have a gun. When the children answered no, the soldier accused them of lying.
Because Making Fun of a Poor Child Sells?
By MARYA SALAMAT
“It was not funny. It was insensitive… It was not genius. It was tasteless… It was not entertainment. It was exploitation.” – Gabriela
Transport Caravan and Transport Strikes, “Just For Starters”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Government agencies such as the MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) belittled the day of protest but President Benigno Simeon Aquino III signed and announced that day a previously pending executive order that would give discounts and subsidies to public utility vehicles.
| Sidebar: Government Tried to Quell People’s Protest Vs Oil Overpricing
Government Tried to Quell People’s Protest Vs Oil Overpricing
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA –The March 31 nationwide People’s Protests against oil overpricing pushed through as scheduled last Friday, despite government efforts to quell the protests through threats of franchise cancellations and possible use of police force, as well as through misrepresentation of the nationwide protests as a “transport strike”, which was duly reported…
Noynoy prolonging injustice vs. PAL workers
PRESS STATEMENT President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s continuing assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) over the labor dispute in Philippine Airlines is prolonging the injustice being committed to workers in the country’s flag carrier. The PAL management is using the ongoing AJ as an excuse for not holding negotiations for a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the PAL…
Nurses Press Government for Jobs, Decent Pay and Outright Ban of ‘Volunteer for a Fee Training’ Scheme
By MARYA SALAMAT
“If you take the proper nurse to patient ratio in this country more than 364,000 nurses are actually needed…but owing to the volunteer-for-a-fee practice of private health facilities, compounded by the low government budget for health,.. the Philippines finds itself today in a situation where it has seemingly surplus nurses but it also has a pressing need for their services.”