MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of porters, truck drivers and vendors stormed the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) in South Harbor yesterday morning to protest the privatization of the North Harbor.
Led by the Alliance of Port/Transport Workers and Porters-North Harbor, the workers slammed the looming lay-off of some 5,000 truckers and dockworkers, including 2,000 vendors at the pier zone.
“A massacre of livelihood awaits us with the turnover of the North Harbor to the private sector… (which) is certainly unacceptable to the thousands who live and work inside the port area,” said APTWP president Jake Azores.
APTWP has questioned the PPA in court for favoring Harbour Centre Port Terminal, Inc. and the Hongkong-based Metro Pacific Investments in the bidding for the privatization of the North Harbor.
Kilusang Mayo Uno chairperson Elmer Labog said the purported modernization of North Harbor is only meant to destroy the workers’ unions in the port area and thus render invalid their hard-earned collective bargaining agreements.
The groups said privatization will result in higher port fees, just like what happened to other privatized services and utilities under the liberalization program of past and present administrations. – Nestor Etolle, Philippine Star
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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