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Tag: Labor Day

  • Nagkakaisang panawagan ng manggagawa 1/12 Photo by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Nagkakaisang panawagan ng manggagawa

    By Bullit Marquez  |  May 01, 2023 8:23 PM

    Nagsanib pwersa ang mga grupo ng militanteng manggagawa at ‘yung mga may simpatiya sa mga kapitalista para palakasin ang sigaw nila sa pamahalaan at sa publiko na pakinggan ang kanilang mga hinaing, kasama na ang kahilingan para sa pagtaas ng sweldo at pagbaba ang presyo ng mga bilihin.

    2023, Labor Day

  • 043020-misleading-mayo-uno-rally.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post claiming May 1 street protests ‘will push through’ MISLEADING

    By VERA Files  |  Apr 30, 2020 6:48 AM

    It’s going to be done online.

    Labor Day

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Emotions match the heat on Labor Day protest

    May 04, 2014 6:16 AM

      Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA Text by MITCH MEÑEZ MAY 1 is International Labor Day and in the Philippines it is a holiday. The designation of May 1 as Workers Day stated in Canada in 1870 when a parade was held in support of a strike against a 58-hour week work. The practice now […]

    Labor Day

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Labor Day job fair stars PWD

    May 08, 2013 5:17 PM

    By EIMOR SANTOS BALIUAG, Bulacan—Frederico “Debong” Palines, was one of thousands who swarmed the Labor Day job fair at the SM Mall in Baliuag recently. But he was not there to look for a job. He went to see his work displayed during the job fair, which was made more colorful by his paintings. Forty-eight […]

    Frederico Palines, Labor Day

  • Categories Banner

    Senatoriables steal labor day limelight, as workers push wage hike

    May 02, 2013 12:39 PM

    By DARLENE CAY and MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ Photos and video by VINCENT GO Senatorial candidates stole the limelight from the working class at yesterday’s Labor Day protest rallies, where workers called for a wage increase, bigger tax relief, an end to contractualization, non-wage benefits and lower prices of basic commodities. Cameras and microphones turned away […]

    Aquino, elections, Labor Day, Wage Hike

  • Categories Top Stories Video

    Job contractualization: the next big issue after wage hike

    May 05, 2012 8:53 PM

    By EIMOR SANTOS AND LLOYD REYES

    Photos by VINCENT GO

    JENNY Tanael, 47, is a wife of a minimum wage earner and mother of a contractual worker.

    Her eldest son Juan Paolo keeps on hunting for a job each time his five-month contract in a fast food chain expires. Sometimes it takes him six months to find work at another branch of said restaurant. In between jobs, he relies for support on his father who earns less than P 400 per day as a security guard.

    contractualization, Labor Day

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