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PASIG CITY — Workers at Filipino beverage giant Zagu went on strike on June 6, in response to management’s attempts to bust their union and President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to end contract labour.
According to the Organisation of Zagu Workers (Organiza) union, an affiliate of the socialist (...)
The ITUC has condemned the brutal murder of Filipino labour organiser Leonides “Dennis” Sequeña. Men riding a motorcycle shot Sequeña in Cavite, Philippines while he was attending a workers’ meeting on Sunday 2 June 2019. He was pronounced dead after arriving at the hospital.
“The Philippines has (...)
The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) condemned the killing of the vice chairperson of its Cavite chapter. The group called on the authorities to investigate and solve the killing.
Dennis Sequena was shot and killed in Brgy. Bunga, Tanza, Cavite earlier today while meeting a group of (...)
The downfall of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines has resulted in a mad scramble for solutions to revive and rehabilitate what was once the world’s 10th largest shipbuilding facility. Efforts have centered on searching for a “white knight” that would rescue the failed (...)
Labor Win, a coalition of leaders from workers’ groups, hopes to bring together a “labor vote” that will help them win a Senate seat in the 2019 midterm elections. The coalition is facing challenges in different fronts: a disorganized labor movement and a lack of resources to mount a nationwide (...)
• Labor Win, a coalition of leaders from workers’ groups, hopes to bring together a “labor vote” that will help them win a Senate seat in the 2019 midterm elections.
• The coalition is facing challenges in different fronts: a disorganized labor movement and a lack of resources to mount a nationwide (...)
Whatever may be the conclusion of the strike, there is little doubt that the practice of contractualization, which has done so much damage to labor in this country, is facing a mortal challenge from its victims.
The lesson of the Pacific Plaza strike is that workers’ solidarity, not (...)
Labor senatorial candidates say yes to the challenge of Otso Diretso for a debate – a dare that opposition candidates had extended particularly to Hugpong ng Pagbabago
MANILA, Philippines – Labor senatorial candidate Ka Leody de Guzman on Saturday, February 23, urged voters to consider their (...)
Statement of Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) on the attempted ambush of Jessielou Cadungog
Police ambush of Cebu labor leader chills labor movement.
The Statement of Mr. Michael C. Mendoza, National President of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade (...)
Nagkaisa! Labor Coalition is deeply concerned over the spate of violence that befell workers in separate incidents across the country.
“We condemn in the strongest terms possible, the attempted murder of a trade union leader in Cebu City and the violent dispersal of striking workers of food (...)
Statement for State of the Nation Address 2018
The reality of inequality and the precarity of employment that continues to affect the working people of the country demonstrate the failure of the Duterte government.
This year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) is the third under the Duterte (...)
"The government should immediately intervene and protect Filipino workers who are facing serious security and safety issues in Malaysia. Our kababayan should not be made to suffer the backlash of government’s inept actions, considering that this is not new for our overseas Filipino workers in (...)
On the signed EO on Endo: Will Congress stand stronger than the mightiest President this country ever had?
Press Statement Rene Magtubo PM National Chair
The EO narrative is over. Sadly, we are in for another waiting game as the anti-endo ball was passed by the President to Congress for (...)
“Panahon na ng paniningil.”
Two years after his election, Rodrigo Duterte continues to demonstrate his inability to deliver the promises of change and progress he sold to the Filipino people. The list of his transgressions against the working class is growing: failure to end contractualization, (...)
Labor representatives urge the President to sign an executive order and then certify as urgent the bills pending with the Senate and the House.
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte asked workers during his first Labor Day celebration last May 1 for more time to eliminate labor (...)
It has been a year since he took office, but all that President Rodrigo Duterte has given Filipino workers were “false expectations” and “unfulfilled promises,” according to several labor groups.
"We tried to rate the President’s performance as objectively as we can, but the outcomes for labor over (...)
The fire is believed to have spread quickly due to flammable materials in the factory.
More than 100 workers were injured in a factory fire in the town of General Trias, Cavite province, about 25 miles south of Manila, Philippine authorities said Thursday.
Huge plumes of smoke continued to (...)
Philippines: luxury Peninsula hotel continues victimizing union leaders for participating in IUF Global Housekeepers Campaign
Management of the luxury Peninsula Manila Hotel continues its retaliatory attacks on IUF member unions for their involvement in the IUF’s Global Housekeepers Campaign (...)
NAGKAISA denounces misrepresentation of Ruben Torres and Usec Say on worker-DOLE consensus that contractualization cannot be prohibited
NAGKAISA, including the legitimate TUCP President Raymond Mendoza, a co-convenor of NAGKAISA and the author of HB No.4444 which will prohibit and criminalize (...)
Protests stop issuance of employer-backed DOLE Order on endo, workers seek Presidential audience.
PRESS RELEASE
NAGKAISA
06 January 2017
Worker protest undertaken by NAGKAISA labor coalition during the holiday season derailed the passage of DOLE Department Order 168 spoiling premature (...)
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