Filipino workers held a rally near the Turkish Embassy inside a plush village in Makati this morning to call on the government in Ankara to stop the violence against protesters and yield to its citizens’ legitimate demands. A group of workers belonging to the NAGKAISA!, the largest coalition of trade unions and workers organizations, briefly…
25,000 WORKERS MARCH TO MENDIOLA ON LABOR DAY; SENATORIABLES VOW TO FIGHT FOR SECURITY OF TENURE Chiding President Aquino’s pronouncement that Labor Day should be celebratory with both labor and capitalists greeting each other for “doing a good job” for the past year, workers renewed the call for government to create “not just jobs” but…
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…
“Hey Coke, how many regular jobs have you killed today?” This is the chant of hundreds of workers belonging to the Alliance of Coca-Cola Unions in the Philippines (ACCUP) and their supporters from the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL-Sentro) and NAGKAISA during a rally today in front of the Coca-Cola headquarters in Makati. The workers…
Forum on fighting Corporate Power and Impunity of TNCs November 26, 2012, 1-6pm at the SDC Conference Hall, Ateneo de Manila University The forum is part of the global campaign for a binding treaty that would make TNCs accountable for violating workers’ and people’s rights with impunity. You can find more information about the campaign…
Labor groups belonging to the biggest labor coalition Nagkaisa! vented their ire in their second day of protest against high power rates on the country’s power oligarchs whose business empires are shored up by super profits taken out from the pockets of millions of captive electricity consumers. In a rally held outside the main office…
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