The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is another one of the Aquino government’s band-aid solution to widespread poverty and hunger in the country. It is a symptom of the many problems of the Filipino workers and people, among which are the high cost of education and health services. It also shows that the real value of workers’ wages have sunk so low in recent years.   read full article »

*press release from RILES Network

As the Aquino government continues to insist on increasing fare in the MRT this month, the riding public intensified efforts to oppose the fare hike by forming an alliance on the first day of September.   read full article »

“Unionization and regularization are the best protection for contractual workers.”  read full article »

Ten years ago, workers of a government oil company in Leyte were alarmed over news that the company was being privatized. Time proved them right. After the new owners took over, however, the workers continued facing harassment. Why? After being privatized, the company’s work force is being contractualized, and the new owners are expecting another round of workers’ unrest.  read full article »

Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed today Labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s August 13 decision giving a nod to the petition for certification elections filed by ABS-CBN’s contractual workers, calling it a “positive development in the fight against contractualization.”  read full article »

Kilusang Mayo Uno called on the Aquino administration today to scrutinize first and publicize the contracts pertinent to the construction and operation of the MRT, before justifying the intended fare hike to the public.  read full article »

“The so-called compromise agreement between Hacienda Luisita owners and Luisita farmers as well as the recent referendum will go down in history like the Nov. 16, 2004 massacre of farmers and farm workers who were calling for land reform – another proof of the Cojuangco and Aquino clans’ greed.”  read full article »