Philippine Labor Day 2026: Worst under Marcos Jr.
Instead of responding to demands for salary increases amid the inflationary effects of the war in West Asia on the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. chose to issue a superficial homage to workers while remaining silent on their main demand of wage adjustments.
Pakikiisa sa welga sa panahon ng social media
Mabisa itong pangontra sa pananakot ng isang nagpakilalang abogado ng kompanya na magsasara raw ang kompanya kung magtutuloy-tuloy ang welga, gayon din sa walang-awat ng pang-uupat ng pulisya sa mga manggagawa tuwing gabi. Malas nila, pabor na pabor sa unyon ang simpatiya sa mismong West Avenue at sa social media.
Buwagin ang inutil na Regional Wage Boards
“Kagyat, napapanahon, at makatwiran lang na buwagin na ang mga RWBs at ipatupad ang PHP1200 family living wage sa buong bansa para makaagapay naman ang mga manggagawa at kanilang pamilya sa presyo ng mga bilihin.”
Labor groups demand accountability for Cebu garbage slide
“Employers and companies that deliberately ignore occupational safety and health standards in order to cut costs and maximize profit must be held fully accountable. The blood of the workers is on the hands of those who placed profit above human life,” CWS said.
Instead of thieves in gov’t, police arrests Cordillera labor leader
“It is clear where state priorities remain: punishing those who speak for the people instead of those who steal from them,” BIEN Philippines said.
Zaldy Co’s revelations prove BBM is ‘commander-in-thief,’ progressives say
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) said it has been further confirmed that Marcos Jr. is the single person mainly responsible for the corruption-infested national budgets.
KMU rips bogus order on worker rights
The labor center stressed that EO 97 “twists the demands of workers for justice and accountability and does not address the long and bloody list of murdered unionists.”
Unyon sa Fuji, panalo sa bagong CBA
Matagumpay na naipaglaban ng Lakas ng Nagkakaisang Manggagawa sa Fuji Electric Philippines Inc. (LNMFEPI) ang panibagong Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) na naglalaman ng dagdag sahod at benepisyo matapos ang negosasyon sa pamunuan ng kumpanya noong Hwebes, Hulyo 17.
‘Overpaid Filipino workers’
That is the farcical argument foisted by a gang that purports to be a think tank in viscerally opposing the proposed P200 legislated wage increase, along with columnists who think that the economic savior – foreign direct investment — would not touch the country with a ten-foot-pole because of its “astronomical” wage level.
KMU urges BBM to approve legislated wage bill by Congress
“Though it (the HOR measure) falls short of the ₱1200 daily minimum we are pushing for, the passage marks the first time a legislated wage hike is passed in Congress since 1989 and underscores the utter failure and inutility of the wage boards,” KMU said.