Terminated contractual workers of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) under the PLDT Organization of Workers and Employees for Rights (POWER) and pro-labor group Defend Job Philippines aired dismay over the recent decision of the Court of Appeals’ (CA) on Valentines’ Day, February 14. Workers describe the decision as ‘heartless.’ The decision was released…
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This is the statement of labor group Defend Job Philippines today as they bring issues of rising costs of oil and prices of basic commodities and services to their daily voters’ education caravan and series of town hall meetings with workers and labor unions for their ongoing #LaborVote2019 campaign. The group and its electoral campaign…
May katuturan pa kayang Araw ng Puso’y ipagdiwang Ng masang aba’t api ng mga may kapangyarihan– Na katiting mang hustisya’y pinagkakaitan? Paano babatiin ng “Happy Valentine!” Magsasakang iwinalay sa minamahal, Dinakip isang linggo bago maikasal? Puso’y nangungulila mahigit nang sampung buwan Di nasisilayan sinisinta ni minsan. Puso’y nagdurugo, nangangambang di na makasama Dahil inakusahang “terorista”…
The President of the Philippines ordered aerial bombings in the hinterlands of Sulu and reinforces of checkpoints and military forces in some provinces like Basilan and Zamboanga peninsula. Hinterlands in Agusan-Surigao-Bukidnon and Southern and Far South Mindanao are continually bombarded with bombs and Canons to flush the ‘enemies of the state.’ In Cagayan de Oro…
(Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat.com) “We should all unite to call for lifting of martial law.” MANILA – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) criticized the recent decision of the Supreme Court (SC) affirming the third extension of martial law in Mindanao. On Tuesday, Feb. 19 SC Public Information Chief Atty. Brian Keith…
President Duterte has signed the Rice Tariffication Bill into law, which promises to reform Philippine agriculture. But until the government genuinely completes land reform and gives sufficient and substantial support to agriculture, the country’s staple and Filipino farmers remain at risk. The law removes quantitative restrictions or limits to rice importation. Any amount of rice…
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