The striking workers and management of a radio station signed today a memorandum of agreement (MOA) which led to the conclusion of a 43-day labor strike.
Workers of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao said that only the charges of illegal strike filed by the company against them stand in the way of a “peaceful” culmination of negotiations that would end their nearly two months strike.
Saying that their grievances were “unheard and neglected” by the national government, some 300 indigenous people, peasants, environment advocates and human rights group will travel to Manila Thursday in an activity dubbed “Manilakbayan.”
Police nabbed a fugitive killer here Tuesday evening a week after he was charged of two counts of murder.
The Bangsamoro development plan is consistent with the national development plan “that is anti-Moro and pro-foreign (investors),” a Moro group has claimed.
Two years ago, Manobo folks of Barangay Diatagon in Lianga, Surigao del Sur province had fled their homes due to militarization in their areas.
Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon on Monday warned druglords in the city to leave or face jailtime.
A city councilor filed a resolution urging the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to finish the repair of the Bankerohan bridge this month
Saying the law on indigenous Filipinos has “failed to deter the plunder of our national patrimony and exploitation of our indigenous territories”, the activist organization of tribal Filipinos called on the scrapping of both the law and the agency that was created to administer to the welfare of tribal Filipinos.
The student council of the Mindanao campus of the University of the Philippines warned that it would hold protest activities to demonstrate its indignation over it called as a lopsided Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the US.
