RISKY
Sans safety gears, workers fix this huge outdoor board along Lanang road in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Officers and members of the Brokenshire College Faculty and Staff Union start their strike Friday morning as they scored the school management’s non-compliance of their Collective Bargaining Agreement and the “illegal termination” of 11 Clinical Instructors. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Teachers, staff push strike vs Davao nursing college
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
“Nag-ugat ang strike na ito nu’ng hindi nila binigay ang tamang benepisyo sa mga empleyado.” -- Eliseo Avellana, one of the 11 clinical instructors “illegally terminated” by the Brokenshire College administration
ON STRIKE
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…
Filipino workers and their families have been calling for an increase in wages, among other economic and political demands. (davaotoday.com file photo by Ace R. Morandante)
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.
Strike looms in Davao nursing college
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.