A crowd of 18, 000 athletes, coaches and guardians from the country’s 17 regions gathered at the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex in Tagum City to formally open the 2015 Palarong Pambansa Monday afternoon.
“We had no choice but to fight back since the company was making us work like carabaos.”
We, media workers in the Philippines, mark Labor Day with heightened determination to defend our rights and welfare against the intensifying assaults on jobs, wages and benefits, and freedom of the press.
The Department of Health XI (DOH) said that they are targeting to eliminate malaria in the region after a decrease in the number of cases has been recorded last year.
The recent mass layoff of GMA network employees violated the workers’ rights to due process, a labor group said.