By MARYA SALAMAT
“Firing a highly-rated performing employee and popular union leader only shows how companies are ruthless in using low-handed tactics to weaken unions and implement their profit schemes. No industry is spared; no character of employee is taken into consideration.” — EILER
By MARYA SALAMAT
A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike.
Revolutionary workers celebrate 43rd anniversary of NPA (Photos by Marya Salamat )
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila-Employees of the Philippine Postal Corporation are up in arms against the new administration led by former Bulacan governor Maria Josefina Mendoza de la Cruz over its rationalization program. The two biggest employees union in Philpost, the PhilPost Rank-and-File Employees Association, Inc. (PRAFEA) – Confederation for Unity, Recognition and [...]
Saturday, March 24, 2012By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the church celebrated the feast of St. Joseph the Worker last week in a conference with various workers’ groups in the National Capital Region. According to its conveners, this regional conference is a fruit of the first national conference of the Church-People Workers Solidarity (CWS) held last [...]
Friday, March 23, 2012By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – The progressive teachers party-list group is calling for a ban on contractualization of teachers in the public sector. ACT Teachers Party Rep. Antonio Tinio filed House Bill (HB) 6006, which prohibits the hiring of teachers through contracts of service or job orders in public schools. “Contractualization has [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012By bulatlat.com MANILA – Contrary to what President Benigno “Noynoy” came up with in his computation presented to the media yesterday, the Philippine economy actually has more than enough profit to support a P125 ($2.91) nationwide across-the-board wage hike. Analyzing the data released by the government itself based on the declared financial reports of corporations [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Coca-Cola Philippines has marked its 100th year anniversary with the launching of its happiness truck, making the dreams of lucky Filipinos come true. But ironically, the company is being accused by its workers of spreading unhappiness among them with its attacks on labor rights. In a press conference, [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Finally, after more than a decade, the proposed legislated wage hike bill in Congress has seemingly got a promised approval of the House labor committee. The pending House Bill 375 in Congress is seeking to legislate a P125 across-the-board wage increase nationwide. The said bill was first filed in [...]
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
By MARYA SALAMAT
By denying public health workers their legally-mandated benefits, the Aquino government has practically reduced their monthly take-home pay.
Sidebar: More work, less pay for government health workers
Monday, March 12, 2012By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Some 60 members of employees’ union in HSBC held two sessions of prayer-protests this week in two branches, one at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig and another at the iHUB Building Northgate Alabang in Muntinlupa. The prayer-protest is reportedly part of the union’s ongoing campaign against outsourcing of [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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