Monthly Archives: May 2010

ON Labor Day and a few days before Filipinos troop to the polls, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) challenged all presidential candidates to bare their plans to create badly needed new jobs and arrest mounting unemployment.

MANILA, Philippines – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) yesterday urged young Filipinos to actively involve themselves in the global fight against climate change. In the Philippines, the CCC identifies the youth as one of the sectors vulnerable to climate change since they will be the future inhabitants of the planet.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP), the largest workers’ party in the country, and its sister organization the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Labor Center, led government, employer and union representatives and other sectors yesterday in calling for the promotion of safety among workers, including the banning of asbestos in…

CEBU, Philippines – The call to stop mass layoffs and labor contractualization rang loud and clear in protests on Labor Day yesterday as the demand to reform the wage fixing system and abolish the wage boards were also highlighted in the protests led by the partylist Partido ng Manggagawa.

MANILA, Philippines – The Caloocan City government said it will create a master list of all its residents in order to help them find a fitting job.

They’re more than icebreakers and bonding activities – they can actually increase productivity in the workplace and boost company morale. Here’s how to make the high last.

VOTING DETAILS: Pass on these notes on election procedures for May 10 culled by Kenneth Yu from a seminar arranged by barangay captain Ralph Diaz (sorry, his barangay was not identified):

The Noynoy Aquino phenomenon – the emergence of a reluctant presidential candidate who is now poised to become the next Philippine president – has spawned another phenomenon. This phenomenon can be called SURVEY PHOBIA or the irrational fear of survey results.

Experts are calling for an infusion of about 10,000 primary care physicians into medically underserved areas over the next several years, even as medical students’ interest in primary care has waned.

MANILA, Philippines – Where have the jobseekers gone? Fewer new graduates and other jobseekers turned up in various job fairs held nationwide yesterday in commemoration of Labor Day. Labor Undersecretary Lourdes Trasmonte said a total of 270,190 local and overseas jobs were offered to Filipinos looking for new or additional employment.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide will get a much-awaited increase in their daily take-home pay after the May elections as a belated Labor Day gift, the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) said yesterday.

THE PHILIPPINES remained the world’s fourth highest recipient of remittances from nationals in 2009, even as these flows face risks from high unemployment rates in host economies, the World Bank said in a report, Migration and Development Brief, posted on its Web site last April 23.

Its’ not just the Malacañang decision to subordinate the timing of Labor Day–—a sacred date internationally observed on May 1—to holiday economics that  is the problem. Telling workers and employers to go on holiday on May 3, the Monday after, so as to encourage workers and their families to “enjoy” a longer weekend and, it…

Let me echo the call of former Chief Justice and FEU alumnus Art Panganiban for all voters to make enlightened choices in the upcoming May 2010 elections. And I cannot overemphasize the importance of the need for clean, honest and orderly elections in a democracy such as ours. The vote of the people is “sacred…

A major group under the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the biggest workers’ organization in the country, is not participating in today’s celebration of Labor Day. But the Associated Labor Union (ALU) has announced that it is supporting the Liberal Party’s presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his running mate Sen.…

MANILA, Philippines – Despite recent economic strides, the majority of the country’s population is still poor, with the ranks of  the impoverished, seemingly continuing to outpace economic gains.

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has announced its support to Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Quino and his runningmate Sen. Mar Roxas.

The skirmish in the hikes in charges of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) intensified further when the operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) tossed accountability on the distribution firm’s independent power producers (IPPs) as the ones contributing substantially in the hike in its generation charges.

The environmental benefits of electric cars are being questioned in Germany by a surprising actor: the green movement. But those risks don’t apply in the U.S., the American electric-car lobby asserts.

MANILA, Philippines – The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM), the government entity tasked to handle the privatization of National Power Corp. assets, said there is nothing illegal with the sale of the Angat hydroelectric power plant.

MANILA, Philippines – A recent survey by Pulse Asia that was released yesterday showed that Senators Ramon Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada remained as the top contenders in the senatorial race, with only nine days before the May 10 elections.

Two decades after the Aquino government successfully rammed through the first major revision of the country’s Labor Code to the detriment of workers’ rights, the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) recently aired its desire to revise it anew. As with previous attempts to change the Labor Code, their stated reasons boil down to the…

Qualified Filipinos living in South Korea can now avail of Korean citizenship under its revised immigration law, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

Some 30 to 50 percent of the voters will surely be disenfranchised, as proved by the mock elections conducted by the Commission on Elections at the UNTV in Quezon City Thursday April 29.

Clark Freeport Zone and the Metro Clark Area benefited from the sound economic programs of the Philippine government despite the financial crisis last year as the state-owned firm bucked the odds and turned the crisis into investment and development opportunities.

There seems to be no point in celebrating Labor Day with the contractualization of workers in the Philippines going from lingering to worsening.

Conclusion Based on reports ABS-CBN 2 submitted to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the party-list group AAPS, or the Association of Administrators, Professionals, and Seniors (formerly known as the Association of Retired Teachers or ART according to the group’s website) had already secured ad spots with the network giant until May 8, 2010, the end…

FORMER Defense Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, the administration party standard-bearer in the May 10 elections, has overtaken the two perceived frontrunners in the latest survey conducted by independent pollster Campaigns and Images Group (CIG).

Palace to let regional boards rule on labor’s salary demand Amid labor groups’ petition to increase their pay, Malacañang on Friday gave Regional Wage Boards (RWBs) the prerogative to decide on a wage hike, saying that there will be no declared pay raise on Labor Day, May 1, itself.

CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is again searching for new batch of establishments and individuals for the seventh Gawad Kaligtasan at Kalusugan (GKK) award.