[This commentary was originally published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on March 9, 2017. The NFFM report can be read in … More
Category: Labor
OFWs rage: Hands-off our #BalikbayanBox
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) order increasing duties for balikbayan boxes and subjecting them to physical inspection has sparked outrage … More
#TanduayWorkersOnStrike amidst attacks by Lucio Tan’s guards and hired goons
Workers of Tanduay Distillers Inc., which is owned by Lucio Tan who is listed byForbes Magazine as the Philippines’ second … More
#JusticeForKentexWorkers: criminal labor standards behind country’s deadliest ever factory fire
Dubbed the deadliest factory fire in Philippine history, last May 13’s Kentex Manufacturing Incorporated slipper factory fire in Valenzuela … More
Ipaglaban ang P16,000 kada buwan na ‘National Minimum Wage’
Note: I wrote this for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Ang kakarampot na P15 taas-sahod sa Metro Manila nitong nakaraang linggo … More
Bombard the Headquarters! 