Ayon kay H.B. Stowe, isang sikat na manunulat, ang kababaihan ang tunay na arkitekto ng lipunan. Mula sa pagiging ilaw ng tahanan ay kayang pagalawin ng kababaihan ang isang kilusang mapagpabago at mapagpalaya. Gamay din ng mga kababaihan ang lahat ng kanto ng kusina. At hindi lang sila ang nakakonsumo ng mga produkto ng Nutri…
The Water for the People Network (WPN) is dismayed that the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System – Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) would not readily reveal the numbers involving water companies’ petitions for tariff increases in public consultations that the MWSS-RO itself convened this week. The group said that by doing so, the government agency effectively hindered…
Sunud-sunod na nagsisiputukan ang piket ng manggagawa sa iba’t-ibang pagawaan at iisa lang ang dahilan ng kanilang patuloy na pagsigaw sa kanilang mga panawagan — wakasan ang kontraktwalisasyon. Dumaranas sila ng matinding paglabag sa kanilang mga karapatan na sa patuloy na pagtaas ng presyo ng mga bilihin at paghirap ng buhay ay hindi na makaampat…
Dati rati kami ay simpleng manggagawa lamang Manggagawang hangad ay trabaho lamang Trabaho, bahay, trabaho. Sobrang maamo Sunud-sunuran sa amo. Takot na pagkatanggal sa trabaho ang matamo. Ngunit aming napagtanto, Napagtanto na mali ito. Mali dahil sa sobrang pagka-maamo Batak sa trabaho, Mga ako’y sinamantala ito. Utos doon, utos dito. Ngunit tamang sahod…
Dissatisfied with the nature of the fourth rate rebasing public consultation held Wednesday, consumer network Samahan at Ugnayan ng mga Konsyumer para sa Ikauunlad ng Bayan (SUKI) urged the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) to conduct a genuine consultation and exercise in transparency in presenting the data used to justify the proposed…
Higaonon ‘bakwits’ in Cagayan de Oro find it ironic that the national government is holding its first Mindanao-wide indigenous peoples summit in the city when only IP groups from Caraga and Southern Mindanao cooperative of the government are invited. Barely a mile away from the summit’s venue is their ‘bakwit camp’, where stories of the…
Workers from Slord Development Corporation, manufacturer of Uni-Pak Sardines, staged a protest at the Social Security Services (SSS) Main Office gates at East Avenue, Quezon City this morning, before filing a formal complaint against the corporation for its non-registration of employees and non-remittance of SSS contributions. “Halos tatlong dekada na kami sa Slord pero ni…
In what they call a ‘Beehive’, Jollibee workers who were illegally dismissed kicked off their indefinite campout at the gate of JFC’s (Jollibee Foods Corporation) main office in Paranaque today. Before trooping to the company’s main warehouse, members of SM-JFC (Samahan ng Manggagawa sa JFC) held a ‘die-in protest’ at the Jollibee head office in…