Enough of Broken Promises! End Poverty and Inequality! Stop Extra Judicial Killings Now! Today, at least a thousand workers belonging to APL and SENTRO will join the NAGKAISA mobilization along Commonwealth Avenue. This is where social movements and civil society groups will converge to express their dismay over the President Aquino’s failure to live up…
Together with 800 delegates of the World Social Forum on Migrant Labor, the Nagkaisa broad labor coalition would march on November 30 to call on the Aquino administration to reject neoliberal policies and to pursue the policy of labor and economic protectionism. In two decades, Philippine governments have swallowed hook, line and sinker the policies…
As the labor movement gears up for their actions towards May 1 in celebration of the International Labor Day, a new labor center was formed with membership of at least 80,000 workers covering major industries and sectors nationwide. Sentro ng Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) was launched today in a press conference as they declared April 16…
AMID the political circus called the impeachment trial of the Supreme Court’s dubious head, the Edsa People Power 1 uprising’s 26th anniversary was again marked by President Aquino by pouring out his habitual “straight path” rhetoric, his anticipated bias especially for big business, and his naïve trust in superficial social reforms. This was the scathing…
Koalisyon Kontra Kontraktwalisasyon (KONTRA), a coalition of labor groups against contractual employment sought the reversal of earlier decision of President Benigno Aquino III upholding the outsourcing of PAL workers as they participated on the second day of PALEA’s 3-day Lakbay Hustisya today. “The presidential intervention in the case of PAL came, not in favor of…
APL STATEMENT ON THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIAL LAW ALMOST 40 years after Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law, a lot of its offshoots have remained entrenched in the fabric of Philippine society, although many of the recent generations may be unaware of them or those who knew have opted to forget them. However, a…
