A progressive labor group here blamed President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement tagging their group as a communist front for the intensified attacks against workers and their unions in Compostella Valley province.
Banana plantation workers of Japanese giant Sumitomo Fruit Corp. (Sumifru) in Compostela Valley province are planning to mount a strike after the firm refused to enter into a new collective bargaining agreement.
The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is responsible for the rise of cases of workers’ strikes in the country.
An evacuation center where indigenous people who sought refuge in the city stay is not a usual place where retired teachers spend their time.But for a 71-year-old retired teacher, teaching children who fled from their homes in Talaingod and Kapalong Davao del Norte, due to militarization of their communities, is where she finds fulfillment.
As the inflation rate in the region has reached to 7.1 percent this year, government officials claimed that it is still manageable.
Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Oscar Albayalde has shut down claims that there are disgruntled police personnel due to the revocation of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s amnesty.
The Land Registration Authority (LRA) on Monday has encouraged landowners to have their land titles “digitalized” for easier processing of their documents.
Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Tagle warned erring government officials on Friday that even if they escape man-made laws, there is still a supreme law waiting for them.
On Friday, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has called the public to refrain from commenting on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s amnesty because the case is already pending in the High Court.
A Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) official has confirmed that they have already got hold of a copy of the “Christian policy agenda” submitted by a group of Christian church leaders based in the new Bangsamoro political entity that will be established following the passage of Republic Act 11054 or the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).
