RIGHT TO WORK
As new graduates enter the labor force, it is possible that only three out of ten college graduates looking for work may land a job.
According to research group IBON Foundation, this estimate does not even include graduates who do find jobs but may likely take whatever work is available even if these are unrelated to the college degrees.
The country’s employment and quality of work was at its worst in 2009, with around 64.4% to 81% of the 39.4 million-labor force in 2009 either jobless or in poor quality work. Its true unemployment rate of around 11% counting 4.32 million jobless Filipinos puts the Philippines in the worst crisis of joblessness and of poor quality work in its history.
Kami ang maralitang mamamayan na naninirahan sa tabing-riles ng Pacwood at RMT site, sa Barangay Tunasan, Muntinlupa City. Matagal na kaming nakatira sa tabing-riles. Marami sa amin ay dito na ipinanganak, nag-asawa at nagkapamilya. Ang mga anak namin ay dito na lumaki hanggang magkapamilya.
We are the displaced workers of Triumph International Philippines Incorporated who were unjustly laid off by the company last June 27, 2009. Many of us have served the underwear company for more than 30 years before the lay-off.
VIOLATIONS IN THE RIGHT TO WORK AND TO JUST AND HUMANE WORKING CONDITIONS - 1. BLUESTAR MANUFACTURING (ADVAN SHOES AND RAINBOOTS) WORKERS: The company started its operation on May 20, 1990. It is owned and managed by Mr. Jimmy Ong, a 50+ year old Filipino-Chinese. Bluestar Marketing and Manufacturing Corporation is the maker of Advan casual shoes and rainboots brand. It distributes its products locally. Among the biggest buyer of its products is the SM shopping mall. The workers estimated the production output of rainboots at 2,700 pairs per day and the shoes at 5,400 pairs/day.
FARMERS NOW OCCUPY, TILL LAND IN NEGROS– A NEW AND WELCOME EXPERIENCE! -- Bago City, Northern Negros-- Kagawad Eddie, as he is fondly known in his barangay, could still not describe his feeling as he woke up one morning from a makeshift tent in the middle of the 81-hectare hacienda. The land was bought almost three years ago by controversial insurance firm owner Celso Delos Angeles. Almost six months has passed since Kagawad Eddie and other hacienda farmers put up a “tent city” inside the hacienda and started to assert their right to occupy a portion of the farmland.
Poor standard of living, scarce protection and assistance, food blockade, women and child mortality, inaccessible medical services and poor sanitation; few of the economic and socio-cultural rights violation suffered by the Moro people in Maguindanao when military turned up in their communities to chase elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Mariing kinukundena ng mga mga manggagawa ng Triumph International Philippines (TIP) and deklarasyon ng TIP management na isara (closure) ang Triumph International main plant at Star Performance Inc. na may humigit kumulang 1660 na manggagawa ang matatanggal sa trabaho. Naninindigan ang mga manggagawa para sa kasiguraduhan sa trabaho at hindi tangggalan.
The export banana industry is the cornerstone of the Davao Region’s economy, consuming 66,561 hectares of agricultural land, and earning US$884.7 million in 2005.1 The Philippines currently ranks no. 2 in exporting countries, while export demand grows by 3-6% every year.2 Transnational corporations such as DelMonte, Dole (Castle & Cooke), and Chiquita/Unifrutti dominate world trade and production, partnering with big landlords and business men in their Philippine operations (Soriano/AMS Group of Companies, Floirendo/TADECO, Marsman-Drysdale, and
Lorenzo/Lapanday). Davao City’s infrastructure, such as ports and roads, continues to be improved and expanded to accommodate the growing demand for Philippine bananas in the global market.
Reference Person: Arthur Cadungon, BAYAN-NCR (0905-5937631 or 09065506909 ) | Hundreds of homeless families in Muntinlupa Phil. Natl. Railways Site collectively set up their own shelter dubbed as KUBOL ng MAMAMAYAN for immediate or permanent shelter and livelihood, food and medicine, urgent care for the children, JUSTICE and social change, this afternoon in Alabang , Muntinlupa, City.
