Public utility drivers in the Philippines lament the seeming lack of government support and regard for their sector, but the country’s statisticians at least seem to give them due credit.
Category: Labor & Employment
Strike Defies Assumption of Jurisdiction Order in RP’s Largest Palm Oil Company
By MARYA SALAMAT
Workers in Filipinas Palm Oil Industries launched a strike after months of negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement hit a deadlock, despite an assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) order from the labor department. A first strike in defiance of AJ under the Aquino administration.
Filipino Educators Demand for Just Compensation, Humane Working Conditions on World Teachers’ Day
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The meager salary of teachers remains as one of the most pressing concerns confronting Philippine education.
[Video] 100 Days of Noynoy Aquino: Where’s the Change?
[Video] Where’s the Change?
Peasants Killed, Yet Not Even a Single Hectare of Land Distributed
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Farmers’ group Kilusan ng Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said human rights violations and no land distribution even in haciendas under agrarian dispute characterize the first 100 days of the Aquino presidency.
Noynoy, DOLE Chief Asked to Resolve 8-Year Strike at Nestlé
By MARYA SALAMAT
The striking Nestlé workers had asked the new president as soon as he was inaugurated to help resolve the issues that had brought them to their nearly nine-year strike.
PALEA Celebrates 64th Anniversary Amid Turbulent Times at PAL
By MARYA SALAMAT
Both PALEA and FASAP are seeking to finally ink a new, improved CBA with PAL. But PALEA has been met with mass termination notices, while FASAP has been forced to file a notice of strike as PAL firmly refuses to put the discriminatory retirement provision on the negotiating table.
Migrant Group Slams MECO for Favoring Anti-Labor Practices of Taiwanese Companies
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — It was 36-year-old Siony Torzar’s second time to work as a factory worker in Taiwan. She hoped to provide for a better future for her two children. But she ended up deeply in debt instead. Worse, she, like other OFWs in Taiwan, received no help from the…
Is the Open-Skies Policy the Answer to Lucio Tan’s Anti-Worker Schemes?
By MARYA SALAMAT
In the short-term, this may close the gap in air transport service that a strike in the Philippine flag carrier would create, but at the expense of sabotaging the demands of Filipino workers.
Lepanto Owes Workers More Than P254 M, Unions Seek Congressional Inquiry
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet — The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) owes its workers an accumulated amount of P254.37 million ($5.79 million) in unpaid wages and benefits. The total amount includes P12 million ($273 thousand) in monthly salaries and 24 months backwages, unpaid 13th month pay for 2009 amounting to around…
For ABS-CBN, Six to 16 Years of Service to the Company Does Not Seem to Matter
By MARYA SALAMAT
Her labor case took seven years before the DOLE issued a decision saying Wheng Hidalgo is supposed to be treated as regular employee at ABS-CBN. But instead of gaining job security, Hidalgo was moved around from graveyard to late afternoon shift, and later terminated for rejecting the company’s insulting, long-delayed regularization offer. “I cannot understand why…I gave ABS-CBN my service, love, loyalty,” Hidalgo said.