Posts by tag: workers

11 years ago

Davao rallyists slam ‘lies’ in Aquino’s SONA

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Davao rallyists slam ‘lies’ in Aquino’s SONA

Students marched through universities to protest state budget cuts and high cost of education. Workers held a rally in a strike camp to demand job security. Farmers held a picket at a military headquarters to decry militarization and abuses. The rallies culminated with a burning of Pres. Aquino’s effigy in a gathering at the city’s Rizal Park in the afternoon.

11 years ago

MANUAL LABOR

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This clothes vendor could board any of these jeepneys to take his items to an ukay-ukay center in Uyanguren Street, but hard times are reflected with his decision to carry his goods with a kariton (davaotoday.com photo by Ace Morandante).

11 years ago

RISKY

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Sans safety gears, workers fix this huge outdoor board along Lanang road in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R….

12 years ago

ON STRIKE

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Members and officers of the Brokenshire College Faculty and Staff Union hold a strike Friday after the school management allegedly…

12 years ago

Today’s View: Working class heroes

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Today’s View: Working class heroes

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.

12 years ago

Strike looms in Davao nursing college

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By CHERYLL D. FIEL

Davao Today

Rodney Baslot, President of Brokenshire College Faculty and Staff Union, said they might take this means of last resort as the management made several moves against the union, the latest being the “illegal dismissal” of 11 instructors on March 8.