Research group IBON said that a wage hike towards a family living wage is a more than fair 50-50 split of profits between employers and Filipino workers. The group said that a meaningful wage hike is urgent for nominal wages to keep up with the rising cost of living. IBON stressed that raising...
No amount of job fairs can hide that job creation for Filipino workers has been lagging, breaking government’s façade of an improving labor market, said research group IBON. The group said that employment generation so far this year is far below government’s...
Government workers groups are demanding from the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration an increase in their salaries, saying their current pay have been left way behind by current living wage estimates. The country’s major public sector union federations met at the...
Kristen Nicole Ranario, Ma. Emmylou SolidumPinoy Weekly Hindi maipagkakaila, mga jeepney ang nagsisilbing sandigan ng karaniwang Pilipino upang makipagsapalaran sa karera ng buhay. Sa mas abot-kayang pamasahe at mga rutang kayang-kayang hagilapin, saktong-sakto ito sa...
By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – No words can effectively describe what the families left behind by the desaparecidos are going through. For Idda De Jesus, sister of disappeared activist Gene Roz De Jesus, rage is rapidly becoming her default emotion. “It is...
MANILA – Filipino-American activists protested Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s visit to the United States for the first trilateral U.S.-Japan-Philippines leaders’ summit on April 11. The national day of action was led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-US. Protests were...
Ni CHARLES MAGALLANES, HANNAH KRISTINE JUANPinoy Weekly Muling magkakasa ang Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston) at Samahang Manibela Mananakay at Nagkaisang Terminal ng Transportasyon (Manibela) ng malawakang tigil-pasada at serye ng...
Job generation is far below targets and the quality of wage work is declining – these belie the Marcos administration’s claims of an improved labor market. The government’s measures to supposedly generate high-quality work are clearly failing. Improving jobs market?...
United States President Joe Biden revealed plans for a more aggressive military presence in the Indo-Pacific region at the start of the US-Japan-Philippine trilateral summit in Washington DC, seen as a warning to Beijing that it will not surrender its dominance in the...
Anti-imperialist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) led a protest rally at the Chinese consulate on Tuesday, demanding foreign troops within the Philippine territory to stop militarizing the West Philippine Sea. The group again denounced China’s incursions into...
A global research showed how more than 70 percent of industrial greenhouse gases have been linked to only 100 companies since 1988. By DOMINIC GUTOMANBulatlat.com MANILA – Labor groups are demanding stronger measures from the government and employers to address health...
Ni NEIL AMBIONPinoy Weekly Anihan na dapat ngayon sa Brgy. Mandili sa Candaba, Pampanga. Pero ang tanim na palay noong Disyembre, nalanta’t nangamatay na dahil sa El Niño. Lugi ang mga magsasaka. Hangga’t walang ulan, hindi pa sila makakapagtanim, walang aanihin,...
Ni MICHELLE MABINGNAYPinoy Weekly Tuluyang tinanggal sa bisa ng “temporary layoff” ng Nexperia Philippines, Inc. ang 54 manggagawa noong Abr. 1 sa kabila ng sunod-sunod na protesta ng unyon laban dito. Sabi ng management, “low volume” ang dahilan sa likod ng...