Anakpawis Partylist, Kilusang Mayo Uno and transport group PISTON today staged a caravan to protest the successive price hikes imposed by Big Three oil companies and new players. "We will not allow the oil cartel to impose weekly oil price hikes. Their greed and overpricing must stop now," said Anakpawis Rep. Joel Maglunsod.    read full article »

Anakpawis Partylist and Kilusang Mayo Uno protested today at the Social Security System (SSS) head office to oppose the implementation of the Unified Multi-purpose ID (UMID) system, which will be the Arroyo government’s tool to surveil citizens and squeeze funds for its electoral campaign.  read full article »

The country’s number of unemployed, which stands at 2.83 million in January based on the latest government data, cannot hide the glaring lack of jobs in the country and the failure of Gloria Arroyo’s so-called job generating programs – even if the government has twisted the definition of unemployment.  read full article »

Anakpawis, KMU dare other presidentiables to bare wage hike platform now

“Gilbert Teodoro, though distancing himself much from Gloria Arroyo, reveals more that he will just continue this administration’s corrupt policies with his latest pronouncement championing the regional wage boards.”  read full article »

Militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno today slammed 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 NCR, calling it a media blitz aimed at earning “pog  read full article »

“While we enjoin the most number of workers in the struggle for a substantial wage increase, we see to it that our fight is in the correct direction.”  read full article »

Consistent with the government-capitalist framework of crippling workers’ unions, food giant Dole Philippines operating in South Cotabato is once again using a fake employees’ organization to kick out union leaders who are asserting workers’ rights and take over the union.  read full article »