The AlterMidya Network, a national network of independent media outfits in the Philippines, calls on the Philippine National Police and NutriAsia to drop all charges against the five journalists who were arrested while covering the dispersal of a strike by NutriAsia workers last July 30. AlterMidya also condemns the audacious move by NutriAsia to censor…
Members of the Nagkakaisang Manggagawa ng NutriAsia (NMN), along with other progressive groups, held a press conference at the Our Lady of Fatima Church on Tuesday, July 31, to address the violent dispersal of the 2 month-old picketline at the Marilao plant on Monday, July 30. Alvin Lascano, vice president of NMN, recalled the incident…
PLDT workers and supervisors faced Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod and representatives of DOLE-NCR in a dialogue on the morning of July 31. Today is the deadline given by DOLE to PLDT to regularize thousands of its workers, but the telecommunication giant has yet to comply with…
Nakabantay sa kanilang kampuhan sa tarangkahan ng Navotas Fishport Complex ang mga manggagawa ng Slord Development Corporation (na gumagawa ng UniPak Sardines) nang nabalitaan nila ang marahas na pagbuwag ng pulis sa piketlayn ng mga manggagawa ng NutriAsia mga alas-3 ng hapon noong Hulyo 30. Basahin: Meycauayan police arrest workers, youth, journalists in violent NutriAsia strike…
Members of the PLDT Organization of Workers and Employees for Rights (POWER) started their countdown protest camp-out and vigil at the main office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Manila today as the deadline of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to the telecom giant to regularize its contractual workers lapses tomorrow, July…
Workers, youth leaders and journalists were among the individuals arrested at the NutriAsia workers’ strike following a violent dispersal led by the combined forces of the condiment company’s security personnel and the Meycauayan City police earlier this afternoon. Immediately following an ecumenical service for 300 NutriAsia workers and supporters, around 100 police and NutriAsia security…
The AlterMidya Network (People’s Alternative Media Network) condemns the violent dispersal of the picketline of striking contractual workers of the giant condiments factory NutriAsia in Marilao, Bulacan, which led to the injury and arrest of several members of AlterMidya. At around 3 p.m., around 50 security guards of NutriAsia and 20 members of the Philippine…
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