Killing of proposed wage increase condemned. Kilusang Mayo Uno and labor groups protested in Quezon City on June 12 to condemn the US-Marcos regime and its lackeys for killing the proposed law to increase workers’ daily wage by ₱200. The Senate claimed that “there is no more time” and “there is not enough study” to discuss the proposal at the bicameral conference level of the 19th Congress.

Workers condemn dismissal at Sun Ace Polymer. Sun Ace Polymer Manufacturing Corporation workers picketed before the Department of Labor and Employment-National Capital Region on June 10 to demand the immediate reinstatement of the dismissed workers. The company illegally dismissed 31 workers after they complained about labor-only contracting and abuses at work. Sun Ace is located in Valenzuela City and produces plastic bags.

Toiling masses fight for compensation in Batangas. Over 1,000 farmers, fisherfolk, farmworkers, and sugarcane workers from Batangas first district attended a dialogue at the Department of Agriculture-Calabarzon in Balayan, Batangas on June 18. They demanded the immediate distribution of compensation for disaster victims and the allocation of disaster funds for the genuine rehabilitation of their livelihoods.

Resistance against land grabbing in Zambales. Residents and farmers of Barangay Taltal, Masinloc, Zambales erected a barricade on June 19 to block the scheduled demolition in their community. Police arrested five residents for resisting. The Yap family is grabbing the 32-hectare land being cultivated by farmers in the area because it was delisted from the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Before barricading, farmers went to the Department of Agrarian Reform-Zambales in the town of Iba on June 10 to call for the reopening of the agency’s investigation regarding their land rights.

Free political prisoners in Quezon! Human rights groups in Quezon picketed on June 16 to demand the release of political prisoners in the province. The picket was held in the town of Pagbilao and Lucena City, where the case of Lino Baez and Willy Capareño was also being heard that day.