Journalists welcomed the apology from Davao City police director Vicente Danao for his tirade on three reporters, but they said the city police must do away with its rough treatment on members of the press.
For Larry Argueles, a packing plant worker in his 40s, the country’s Independence Day on June 12 is hardly a cause for celebration.
Lack of standard safety equipment and a union to fight for the workers’ safety highlighted the recent incident that killed a coconut manufacturing worker and injured six others here.
Most sixteen-year-olds should have been in the fourth year of their high school this school year, or in Grade 10 in the current Kindergarten plus 12 years of basic education.
“No guarantee of right.” -- This is the ominous message of an international alliance of labor rights groups to workers in countries, the Philippines included, which were rated as the world’s worst places to work.