Workers win CBA at Daiwa Seiko Philippines. A day after the workers of Daiwa Seiko Philippines Corporation announced their plan to go on strike, the company’s management immediately agreed with the Malayang Unyon ng DSPC-OLALIA-KMU to a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which the company had previously delayed and lowballed. The union voted in […]

Units of the New People’s Army (NPA) reported armed actions mounted against Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) units and its intelligence agents in recent weeks. In Camarines Sur, the NPA-West Camarines Sur (Norben Gruta Command) detonated an explosive at a CAFGU detachment in Barangay Mabini, Del Gallego on October 25. The military action was […]

  UP Visayas walkout. Over 600 students of UP Visayas marched on campus in Miag-ao, Iloilo on November 15 to deliver their grievances and demands to the university administration. Various groups, organizations, and councils participating in the march chanted: “Do better UPV!” The action coincided with the commemoration of National Students’ Day on November 17. […]

Pangolin, 22, graduated with a degree in BA Communications from a private university in Southern Tagalog in July. She studied hard for four years to become a photojournalist. Five months after marching to receive her diploma, she remains unemployed. To make ends meet, she takes on “commissioned” jobs and works twice a week as a […]