Archive of Workers

Southern Tagalog workers denounced Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s touted promise of investments by Japanese companies in the Philippines, saying these will not bring genuine development to the country. Marcos is in Japan for a 4-day official visit. On May 28, he boasted of the promised investment of four large companies set to pour ₱56.3 billion into […]

fBinatikos ng mga manggagawa mula sa Southern Tagalog ang ipinagyabang ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na pangakong pamumuhunan ng mga kumpanyang Japanese sa Pilipinas na anila’y hindi maghahatid ng tunay na kaunlaran sa bansa. Nasa Japan si Marcos para sa 4-araw na upisyal na bisita. Noong Mayo 28, ibinida niya ang diumano’y pagpasok ng apat na […]

Workers can expect no change from newly appointed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary Francis Tolentino. The department will remain anti-worker and pro-capitalist, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) chairperson Jerome Adonis said. “Tolentino supports the retention of regional wage boards—a mechanism for wage suppression and for dividing workers’ unity,” he said. As Metropolitan Manila Development […]

Walang maasahang pagbabago ang mga manggagawa sa bagong talagang kalihim ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) na si Francis Tolentino. Mananatili raw itong kontra-manggagawa at maka-kapitalista, ayon sa tagapangulo ng Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) na si Jerome Adonis. “(S)uportado ni Tolentino ang pagpapanatili ng regional wage boards – isang mekanismo sa pambabarat ng sahod […]

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and its allied groups denounced the cases filed against their leaders in connection with the demonstration held in Manila on May 1, International Workers’ Day. The leaders faced the Manila Prosecutor’s Office on May 26 over police complaints. Renato Reyes Jr and Raymond Palatino of Bayan, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, or […]

Binatikos ng Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) at mga grupo sa ilalim nito ang mga kasong isinampa laban sa kanilang mga lider kaugnay ng isinagawang demonstrasyon sa Maynila noon Mayo 1, Pandaidigang Araw ng Paggawa. Humarap ang mga lider sa Manila Prosecutor’s Office noong Mayo 26 kaugnay ng mga reklamo ng pulis. Kabilang sa mga idinadawit […]

Migrante San Fernando Valley and volunteers who launched the Justice for Trafficked Lancaster Caregivers Campaign celebrated the recent closure of State 101 Travel Visa Consultancy, a Pasig City-based trafficking agency. They said this is a victory of the Filipino-American community in the US. The Department of Migrant Workers announced on May 14 the closure of […]

Ipinagdiwang ng Migrante San Fernando Valley at ng mga boluntir na naglunsad ng Justice for Trafficked Lancaster Caregivers Campaign ang kamakailang pagpapasara sa State 101 Travel Visa Consultancy, isang trafficking agency na nakabase sa Pasig City. Anila, ito ay tagumpay ng komunidad ng mga Filipino-American sa US. Noong Mayo 14, inianunsyo Department of Migrant Workers […]

First quarter reports expose the miserable state of the labor sector. Unemployment and underemployment numbers rose. The youth suffer most, especially those reaching working age and job-hunting graduates. Abi, 26, has worked for five years. She currently works in a semiconductor factory in Calabarzon. This is her second employer. She first worked in business-process outsourcing. […]

Sa simula pa lamang ng taon, iniulat na ang kadusta-dustang kalagayan ng sektor ng paggawa—tumaas ang bilang ng walang trabaho at ang kulang sa trabaho. Isa sa mga nagdurusa rito ang mga kabataan, lalo yaong mga tumutuntong sa hustong gulang para magtrabaho at mga naghahanap ng trabaho matapos gumradweyt. Limang taon nang nagtatrabaho si Abi, […]