Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno expressed today its opposition to the US’s plan, revealed by a Bloomberg news report, to station troops currently in Guam and Japan to the Philippines and other countries, saying the move is in accordance with the US’ geopolitical plan and not with the country’s interests.
This was labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno’s reaction today to Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s statement that he is willing to impose price controls on petroleum products if necessary, calling on the workers and people to join protests in the coming weeks to put pressure on the president to control oil prices.
Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III for failing to improve the country’s employment situation in his first full year in office, saying the president continues to promote low-quality jobs.
Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed today government peace negotiator Alexander Padilla for calling on communist rebels to lay down arms and for hinting that the peace talks will be terminated if the rebels refuse to do so, saying Padilla is sabotaging the peace negotiations with the call.
We would like to clarify matters pertaining to the news article “KMU calls on Aquino to reopen Olalia case” which saw print in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last Jan. 26.
We, in Kilusang Mayo condemn in the strongest terms the Aquino government’s move to allow increased Unites States military presence in the country.
The move is a clear encroachment on our country’s national sovereignty and a violation of the Philippine Constitution and the Senate’s abrogation of the RP-US Military Bases Agreement in 1991.
Because urban poor communities are workers’ communities, we, of labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno, support the call of the Alyansa Kontra-Demolisyon (AKD) on the Supreme Court for a moratorium on the demolition of urban poor communities nationwide.
We want to clarify that Kilusang Mayo Uno did not issue a statement calling on the Aquino government to reopen the case on the murder of our leader Rolando “Ka Lando” Olalia and his aide Leonor Alay-ay 25 years ago; and pinning hopes on the Aquino government to bring justice on the gruesome murder.
Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed President Aquino for indicating apparent lack of concern for the future of hundreds of thousands of business process outsourcing industry workers in his statement on the US government’s drive against outsourcing.