By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The rank-and-file employees of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) picketed the general office of the company to demand payment of delayed wages. Headed by the Lepanto Employees Union-National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (LEU-Naflu-KMU), some 400 workers with their wives, children and…
Category: Labor & Employment
Group Releases Scathing Report on Violations of Workers’ Rights in Philippines
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that documents and monitors human-rights violations committed against workers in the Philippines, released today a report that says that, in the past 50 years, unemployment in the country is highest in the nine years that President Arroyo is in power and that attacks on workers and unionists have worsened.
Download: Hunger, Repression, and Resistance — Workers’ Condition Under the Nine Years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Download: Tides of Crises in the Workers Movement (a CTUHR 2009 Yearend Report)
Women Workers Protest Inhumane Rules, Denial of Benefits in Denture Factory
NEWS RELEASE March 7, 2010 A women-dominated union in a German-owned denture factory is decrying the company’s inhumane rules and regulations which penalizes “use of obscene languange,” “loitering” and “concealment of contagious disease” via dismissal of workers. Samahan ng Manggagawa sa Zahnfabrik Philippines Inc (SMZPI), affiliated to KMU’s Alliance of Nationalist and Genuine Labor Organizations…
Steel Factory Workers in Iligan City Go On Strike vs Abusive and Delinquent Company Management
Delayed 13th month pay. Delayed and staggered payment of salaries. Delayed remittance of monthly salary deduction. Non-remittance of withholding taxes. These are only a few of the problems experienced by workers as early as 2004 in the former National Steel Corporation in Iligan City, Misamis Oriental. After five years and one day before the expiration…
Can’t Say ‘No’ to the Revolution: Douglas Vizmanos-Dumanon, 1954-2010
We in the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions-National Democratic Front of the Philippines salute the revolutionary life, struggle and contributions of Comrade Douglas Vizmanos-Dumanon! Ka Douglas, as we have come to know him, is a veteran cadre and hardworking organizer of the revolutionary trade-union movement in the country. He died due to complications caused by…
TUCP-DOLE media blitz on wage hike petition a predictable charade – KMU
Manila – Progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) today criticized the “predictable charade” being staged by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over the P75 wage hike petition in the National Capital Region, calling it a media blitz aimed at…
Workers Dare Arroyo, Solons to Legislate P125 Wage Hike Instead of Costly Advertising, Campaigning
PRESS RELEASE 01 March 2010 Instead of bombarding Filipinos with advertisements claiming improved livelihood under her term, Gloria Arroyo should better enact our long-overdue call of a legislated, nationwide P125 wage increase. This was the challenge of Anakpawis Partylist and Kilusang Mayo Uno to the Arroyo regime amid recent outpouring of paid ads and publicity…
Raped and Impregnated, OFW Ends Up in Saudi Jail; DFA Clueless
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Barely three months into her job as a janitor in a dental clinic in Dammam, Camille was raped. She got pregnant as a result. Accused of having an extramarital affair, she was jailed and subsequently suffered a miscarriage. She remains in jail, the Philippine government utterly clueless about her plight.
Groups Work Double Time to Save Jakatia Pawa from Death Row
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante said it would flood the Kuwaiti government with appeals for Pawa’s life this week . The emir usually gives clemency to individuals on death row during the Kuwaiti Independence Day on Feb. 25.