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Mass mobilization marks the first senate hearing on Jpepa
Manila, Philippines. – A crowd of more than 300 laborers, farmers, fishers, and environmentalists from the Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) today called on the Senators of the 14th Congress to look beyond the rosy projections and government hype surrounding the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), and to carefully assess its short-term and long-term implications.…
Skyway workers’ unions join forces, step up moves against retrnchment
Once again, hundreds of workers belonging to the rank and file, supervisory and security guards’ unions in the PNCC Skyway today picketed their company’s head office to continue their protests against the planned layoffs connected to the transfer of Skyway operations to Indonesian-owned Citra and to denounce the secret negotiations between PNCC and CITRA to…
Skyway workers denounce retrenchment with Citra takeover of toll operations
Hundreds of rank and file workers from the PNCC Skyway today picketed the company’s head office to denounce plans to retrench employees in line with the scheduled take over of Citra Metro Tollways Corp of the Skyway operations. “This is plain and simple union-busting,” said PSC Employees Union President Apollo Ado, “the government wants…
WE REJECT THE REVIVAL OF THE DOHA ROUND
We, representatives of peasant organizations, women, migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia call for the rejection of the revival of the Doha “Development” Round. We condemn and urgently call the attention of others to the attempts of the big trading powers to revive…
Free Burma Coalition urges ASEAN to start “human rights monitoring” in Burma
Members of Free Burma Coalition-Philippines (FBC-Phils) today held apress conference in Manila and urged ASEAN to begin monitoring the humanrights situation of each ASEAN member states starting withmilitary-ruled Burma (Myanmar). The ASEAN already announced the inclusion of a provision in the ASEANCharter that mandates the creation of a human rights body. Activists whoadvocate for the…
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