AS IT congratulates the Philippine Airlines union for forging a “generally favorable” settlement with the new management which ended a two-year lockout, the Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa stressed that key to this “initial victory” are the PAL workers’ tenacity to fight even a seemingly losing battle, the solidarity extended to them by…
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…
A broad coalition of labor groups against contractual employment vowed to intensify protest actions against the management of Philippine Airlines and until President Benigno Aquino III reverses his decision upholding the outsourcing of PAL workers. “Protest has become the only available recourse for the workers who have to constantly resist the threat to jobs security…
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…
Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, In a news forum with the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of the Philippines, the president was quoted as saying that, “we would like to sympathize with those in PALEA… but the interest of 10 million outweighs the 2,000 or so that is affected by PALEA”. Mr. President, stop pitting PALEA…
