TRADE unions and other organizations picketed today the Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila in the Malate area to air their support to the global campaign to boycott the Hyatt chain of hotels prompted by the rampant abuses against the workers in several Hyatt hotels in the US, even as they recall the almost similar plight…
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…
The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and Koalisyon Kontra Kontraktwalisasyon (KONTRA) condemns the latest attempt of Philippine Airlines to break the protest camp of Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA). PAL is desperate. They failed to get the nod of the court’s TRO so they resorted to violent attacks on the lives of their workers. Once…
IT COULD well be the most fitting wordplay from the title of an award-winning Filipino film in 1976 – “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?” – to describe the plights of the workers, first in the Dusit Hotel and then the flight and cabin crews of Philippine Airlines, following the rulings of the Supreme Court…
MEMBERS of different labor and church organizations trooped to the Supreme Court today to reiterate the call for the en banc review and reversal of the highly contentious ruling of its Second Division on the Dusit Hotel case, which was rebuked late last year by the International Labor Organization. Penned on Nov. 11, 2008 by…
Hundreds of workers from Advance Fashion Inc., a garments exporting factory located at the Sterling Industrial Park in Meycauayan, Bulacan, trooped to the office of Luen Thai Holding Corp. in Times Plaza, United Nations Ave., Manila and staged a `crucifixion’ of the workers to dramatize the illegal lock out perpetrated by the company as part…
