RMN employees dismayed with management’s refusal to grant benefits, failure to negotiate

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “What we’ve asked was very modest, and yet the management was too stingy to give in to the employees’ rightful demands,” Rey Hernan Fabe, President, RMN Davao Employees Union

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Flying cheap in the city

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Plane fare costs are prohibitive for most Filipinos, even as industry leaders enjoy relatively high profits.  Cebu Pacific profited PHP 962 Million (USD 23M) in the first quarter of this year, while Philippine Airlines’ total revenue is PHP 16 Billion (USD 386M) as of the last quarter of 2011.

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Authorities seek preemptive evacuation as floods hit Davao City, Banaybanay town

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “We’re asking the local government, especially the Mayor (Sara Duterte), to force these residents to vacate the area because it’s a danger zone,”-- Brgy. Capt. Robert Olanolan, Bucana, Davao City

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