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		<title>Call centers can and should increase employees’ wages – KMU</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="width: 118px; height: 71px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px"><img style="width: 118px; height: 71px; border: solid 1px #9A9A9A" src="http://bulatlat.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/call-center-amy.jpg"></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:11px; color: #7f7f7f">By MARYA SALAMAT</span>
“Since the entry of the call center industry into the country in the early 2000s, there is a downward trend in the salaries being received by the majority of call center agents.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Child rights advocates continue campaign for breastfeeding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Breastmilk is and will always be best for babies. This is the message of the Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) delivered in a recent milk letting activity in Manila as it appealed to the public and to all Filipino mothers with newborns to breastfeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committee tasked to review oil prices meets with people’s organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="width: 118px; height: 71px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px"><img style="width: 118px; height: 71px; border: solid 1px #9A9A9A" src="http://bulatlat.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/groups_review.jpg"></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:11px; color: #7f7f7f">By MARYA SALAMAT</span>
While progressive groups welcome the review, they worry about the independence of the committee, the quality of, and its hesitation to share, the data it would be getting, and the limits that it imposes on itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Groups refute Aquino government’s claim of helplessness in curbing oil price hikes</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/22/groups-refute-aquino-government%e2%80%99s-claim-of-helplessness-in-curbing-oil-price-hikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="width: 118px; height: 71px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px"><img style="width: 118px; height: 71px; border: solid 1px #9A9A9A" src="http://bulatlat.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/teddyulit.jpg"></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:11px; color: #7f7f7f">By MARYA SALAMAT</span>
In Congress there are 14 proposals and three resolutions calling for the review or scrapping altogether of the Oil Deregulation Law and Value-Added Tax on oil products. 

<em><a style="color:#FE6000; font-weight:bold" href="http://bulatlat.com/main/?p=44124">Sidebar:<a href="http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/22/groups-question-aquino%E2%80%99s-vat-windfall-defense-of-oil-firms%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98greed%E2%80%99/">  Aquino’s VAT windfall, defense of oil firms’ ‘greed’ questioned</a> </em>]]></description>
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		<title>Aquino’s VAT windfall, defense of oil firms’ ‘greed’ questioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Because of the almost weekly increase in oil prices, there is a growing consensus among some lawmakers, peoples’ organizations and various consumers’ advocates that the most immediate relief the Aquino government can give is to remove or reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil products. Since last week, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining confab declares: “Philippines is not for sale”</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/20/57612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Northern Dispatch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DONNA RABANG PETA Northern Dispatch www.nordis.net TAGAYTAY CITY – Concluding with a declaration that the “Philippines is not for sale”, delegates to the Third People’s Mining Conference here, shared their resolutions and declarations at a multi-sectoral joint protest action in Mendiola, Manila to commemorate the passage of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power project in Sagada and Besao gains public support</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/09/wind-power-project-in-sagada-and-besao-gains-public-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Northern Dispatch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ROBERT PANGOD Northern Dispatch SAGADA, Mountain Province – The intent of renewable energy firm PhilCarbon to develop a 15-MW wind farm at the boundary of Sagada and Besao got an initial backing of the host communities in a consultation at the Sagada Town Hall last February 28. “The reason for the support is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We are being strangled&#8217; &#8211; Ifugao drivers on oil price hikes</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/05/we-are-being-strangled-ifugao-drivers-on-oil-price-hikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Northern Dispatch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BRANDON LEE Northern Dispatch LAGAWE, Ifugao — On the 22nd General Assembly of the Ifugao Bus and Jeep Operators and Drivers Association (IBJODA), they invited as speaker Mr George San Mateo, chairman of PISTON, a nationwide confederation of drivers and operators. IBJODA claims a membership of 250 drivers and operators. San Mateo discussed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solon warns mining firms vs corporate plunder</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/05/solon-warns-mining-firms-vs-corporate-plunder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Northern Dispatch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch MAKATI CITY– Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño warned the mining companies about their plunder of natural resources during the Northern Luzon and Central Luzon picket at the Chamber of Mines. “We are calling on the mine firms not to abuse the privileges given them by the mining act of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 2011 toll fee hikes, toll operators report increased profits</title>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/01/26/after-2011-toll-fee-hikes-toll-operators-report-increased-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marya Salamat</dc:creator>
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“The TRB decision approving the automatic increase in toll fee rates every two years should be scrapped.” – Taxpayers Unity vs Toll Fee Hike]]></description>
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