P700/plate for SONA merienda highlights persisting inequality in the country
News ReleaseJuly 23, 2015The menu for merienda and the cost per plate is out in the news. It’s P700 per plate for 2,750 guests.So perhaps the last State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President...
View ArticleAdvisory: Pre-SONA youth event
MEDIA ADVISORYPartido Manggagawa - Kabataan YOUTH in SORRY STATE (A Pre-SONA Protest)· High dropout rate in school 6-7%...
View ArticlePNoy, past governments failed the youth in their transition to the world of...
News ReleaseJuly 25, 2015PM-KabataanHigh dropout rates due to high cost of education amid the prevailing poverty in the country; unemployment; the prevalence of precarious working conditions; and poor...
View ArticleInequality, jobless growth are PNoy’s legacies—labor group
Press ReleaseJuly 27, 2015With President Benigno Aquino III expected to dwell on his legacies in today’s SONA, the labor party Partido Manggagawa (PM) insisted that worsening inequality and jobless...
View ArticleState of Negros: The rise of ‘new sacadas’ belies SONA claim of PNoy on labor
NEWS RELEASEPartido Manggagawa-Negros28 July 2015The rise of ‘new sacadas’ in Negros belie the claim of President Aquino during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday that the country is now...
View ArticleEngage people’s organizations in Yolanda rehab
Press ReleaseAugust 3, 2015PM Region 8Informal workers associations in Leyte are asking the government to engage with people’s organizations in the implementation of the Yolanda rehabilitation in the...
View ArticleBPO workers group challenges candidates on issues
Press ReleaseAugust 14, 2015Inter-CallCenter Association of Workers (ICCAW)A BPO workers group today challenged presidential candidates to commit to a platform of demands and issues of employees in the...
View ArticlePM to BOC: Balikbayan boxes contain labor and love; smuggled goods are in...
NEWS RELEASE24 August 2015Labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) joined OFW groups and individuals around the world in denouncing the new policy of Bureau of Customs (BoC) to subject balikbayan boxes to...
View ArticleAs cabinet meets to deal with traffic problem: Labor group demands that DOLE...
Press ReleaseSeptember 1, 2015With the cabinet meeting today to deal with the grave traffic problem in Metro Manila, the labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) demanded that the Department of Labor and...
View ArticleLabor group asks DOLE if PAL layoff is “tuwid na daan”
Photo from Rappler.comPress ReleaseSeptember 4, 2015The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) today asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) if the continuing hemorrhage of jobs at Philippine...
View ArticlePM to NEDA: What are the structural labor reforms in 2015 APEC agenda?
News ReleaseSeptember 6, 2015 Besides being the Summit host this year, the Philippines also boasts of being at the forefront of initiating business reforms in the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic...
View ArticlePALEA slams new round of PAL layoffs
Press ReleaseSeptember 11, 2015PALEAThe union Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) slammed the planned mass layoff at Philippine Airlines (PAL). Today PALEA is holding a protest at PAL’s...
View ArticlePALEA protest vs. layoff today
MEDIA ADVISORYPALEASeptember 14, 2015 WHAT: PALEA to protest against mass layoff of 117 PAL workersWHEN: Today, September 14 (Monday), 11:00 a.m. WHERE: PAL headquarters, PNBBuilding, Diosdado...
View ArticlePALEA protests vs. PAL layoffs enters second week
Press ReleaseSeptember 14, 2015PALEAFor the second straight week, the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) is holding protests against the latest round of mass layoffs at Philippine...
View ArticleDOJ investigation must include all lumad killings in Mindanao and their...
Photo from Interaksyon.comNEWS RELEASE14 September 2015The inter-agency probe being organized by the justice department must also include cases of lumad killings committed in other parts of Mindanao,...
View ArticleGroup slams P13 wage hike in Metro Cebu as starvation wage
Press ReleaseSeptember 16, 2015The militant Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) slammed the P13 wage hike for workers in Metro Cebu and called it “starvation wage.” Last week the Region 7 Regional Tripartite...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Protest today at DOLE vs. PAL layoffs
MEDIA ADVISORYContact Manny Gan @ 09275307230 WHAT: PALEA to bring to the attention of DOLE the dispute over the mass layoff of 117 PAL workersWHEN: Today, September 18 (Friday), 11:00 a.m. WHERE:...
View ArticleDOLE asked to act on PAL mass layoff
Press ReleaseSeptember 18, 2015PALEAThe Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) today asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to act on the mass layoff at Philippine Airlines...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: PALEA @ 69: BACK TO THE STREETS!
MEDIA ADVISORYPALEa21 September 2015Contact: Manny Gan @ 09275307230Request for coveragePALEA @ 69: BACK TO THE STREETS! BRING BACK OUR JOBS! WHAT: PALEA is celebrating its 69th...
View ArticleAnti-job discrimination ordinance in San Juan welcomed
Press ReleaseSeptember 23, 2015The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) welcomed the enactment of an ordinance in San Juanoutlawing some forms of discrimination in the workplace. Last month San Juan...
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