“While we share this moment of grief, we have to raise accountability on why this incident happened,” says Carlo Olalo, spokesperson of KMU Southern Mindanao
Union workers and peasants under the Kilusang Mayo Uno and Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas burn an effigy at the Rizal Park in Davao City on Monday, May 1. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Chibo Tan of the National Federation of Labor Unions said the situation of the city government’s job order and contract of service workers only reflect the system of the current dispensation which implements contractualization, a scheme that does not protect their right to security of tenure.
Members and officers of the Brokenshire College Faculty and Staff Union hold a strike Friday after the school management allegedly failed to comply with their Collective Bargaining Agreement and resorted…
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
And as the workers, farmworkers and peasants marched and braved the heat, with hundreds of red flags waving, they showed Aquino they are still a force to reckon with, undeterred despite the oppression they are experiencing from massive corporations who stole their lands and displaced them from their homes and livelihood.