Monthly Archives: April 2010

SIGE NA NGA: The Commission on Elections insists that it is ready to conduct credible national elections two short weeks from now. Having grown tired, I am tempted to throw up my hands and say, “Sige na nga, ready and able na po kayo!” Yes, let us leave the Comelec alone so it can concentrate…

MANILA, Philippines – Twelve party-list groups have statistical chances of winning seats in the House of Representatives in the May 10 elections, with Bayan Muna leading the list of probable winners, according to the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that two actors who are also re-electionist senators are again leading the senatorial aspirants in the May 10 elections.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 27 people, including a mayoralty bet and five running for councilor, were killed in 75 election-related violent incidents during the first 105 days of the campaign period for the May 10 general elections.

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THE ARROYO government is scrounging for non-wage benefits to present to the country’s workers on May 1, telling representatives of labor groups who gathered in Malacañang yesterday that much of these wage alternatives had already been given.

KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ON FOA AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, TRADE UNION RIGHTS AND ENFORCEMENT OF LABOR LAWS IN THE TARLAC AND OTHER ECOZONES IN THE REGION INCLUDING SUGGESTED RESPONSES IN FORM OF ROLES, MANDATES, PROGRAMMES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING By Bro. Reynaldo Reyes, Union Representative, ALU-TUCP 27 April 2010, Holiday Inn, Clark, Pampanga

Message by Former Congressman and TUCP Vice President ATTY. ALEJANDRO C. VILALVIZA during the Luncheon Meeting with Her Excellency, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, 27 April 2010, Malacañang Palace, Manila

THE PHILIPPINES became the “biggest faller” among 27 emerging markets in a survey that ranked countries based on its growth opportunities.

MANILA, Philippines – A group of Filipino drivers are living in a deplorable situation in Saudi Arabia. “Filipino drivers may be the best drivers, but they too could be living in a most miserable situation in a foreign land: living in  makeshift barracks they made themselves when off duty, and under the truck trailer when…

Workers, employers and governments mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work each year as part of an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work. This year, it is focussing on emerging risks at the workplace and new forms of prevention in a changing world of work. ILO Online spoke with…

LONDON — A new decades-long study examining the link between the use of mobile phones and long-term health problems such as cancer and neurological diseases launched on Thursday across five European countries.

REPRESENTATIVES of labor groups that form part of Metro Manila’s Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) yesterday said that the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines’ (TUCP) P75 across-the-board wage petition is no longer enough in the face of increasing oil and commodity prices.

BALANGA CITY, Bataan—Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia has reiterated his strong opposition to the plan to rehabilitate the controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The BNPP is in Morong town, Bataan.

LABOR groups in Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan (Mimaropa) are seeking a P65 across-the-board wage increase on the grounds that prices of basic commodities have increased by 8 percent since last year.

Domestic car manufacturers are raising their sales targets. Originally, the industry projected sales of just 137,000 units, an increase of a sluggish 3.4 percent over the 132,444 units sold in 2009. They see a boom coming.

Last Monday, The Manila Times published a news story where Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan “Toots” Ople urged the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to recall its Memorandum Circular 268, which allows banks to freely subcontract out in bulk jobs normally performed by their regular employees.

THE roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro) system has significantly cut the transport costs, as well as travel time in the Philippines, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study revealed.

CEBU, Philippines – A non-government organization, which seeks to promote health and safety development in a workplace, together with workers, artists and other groups will “paint the town red” on Wednesday, April 28, in commemoration of the Workers Memorial Day.

Adding color, in so many ways, to the May 2010 elections is the participation of Ang Ladlad—the political party of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people. Ang Ladlad is vying for a seat in Congress through the party-list system. The journey was long and challenging.

Militant and moderate farmers’ groups have cast their lot with either the Liberal Party’s Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III or his closest rival Senator Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party.

MANILA, Philippines – Forest-based furniture exporters expect revenue losses due to dry spell brought about by El Niño and climate change towards the latter part of 2010.

SENATOR Manuel Roxas II widened his lead to 18 percentage points over vice presidential rival and fellow Senator Loren Legarda, 41 percent to 23 percent, as Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay continued to catch up in the latest Manila Standard poll.

A WELL-ATTENDED forum on “The Promise of Redemption: BESRA and the Need for Higher Education Reform” was held recently on the UP Diliman campus. At that conference, four eminent scholars took turns in discussing various aspects of the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA), DepEd’s major initiative at reforming the country’s decrepit educational system. While…

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SLOWLY but surely the Philippines is emerging from the worst global economic crisis in decades. A fresh whiff of good news came from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Dear PAO, My father is turning sixty years old next month. Presently, he is very weak due to his illness. He informed us that he wants to avail of the health benefits given to senior citizens once he reaches sixty years old but we do not know what the benefits are. We are hoping you…

The Philippines has a population of about 90 million, which is quite large for an archipelago measuring only 300,000 square kilometers.

MANILA, Philippines – Newly appointed Energy Secretary Jose Ibazeta has vowed to keep nuclear energy development as an option to ensure adequate supply of power in the future.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide want the country’s next president to immediately move for a freer entry of locally made garments into the United States.