Monthly Archives: May 2012

News release Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)        Contact: JOSE P. UMALI JR. 09178977182 RAFAEL E. MAPALO 09472812811 (for immediate release) TUCP condemns senseless deaths in Butuan fire The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) condemns what it claims as senseless but preventable deaths of 17 female workers in Butuan City early Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – An official of the Department of Health (DOH) reminded Filipinos to be more careful in preparing and consuming food as diarrhea and other food-borne illnesses are more common during the summer months.

Seventeen workers died in a fire that destroyed Novo Jeans and Shirts, the retail store where they both worked and lived in Butuan City, Mindanao in the Philippines. The workers were trapped, locked in the building by management, when the fire began in the early morning of May 9.

Today, about 240 families lost a loved one to a tobacco-related illness. That’s an estimated 87,600 deaths in a year. In 2011, the country earned around P26 billion worth of taxes from the tobacco industry, while revenue from cigarette manufacturers amounted to approximately P31 billion.

A special report on CNN said overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may be bringing home billions of dollars in remittances each year but the challenge for many of them was how to spend the money wisely.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) – Five people have died from complications due to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Davao, the largest city in the southern Philippines, this year, local health officials said.

(CNN) — The streets of Manila can be an unforgiving place for the city’s taxi and public transport drivers. Chronic traffic jams and badly maintained roads are part of the daily grind but add in the possibility of floods during the annual typhoon season and a strong constitution is needed.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families who consider themselves poor grew by two million in the last three months, a survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday issued the Child Protection Policy (CPP) guidelines for public and private school teachers in the administration of disciplinary actions against erring students.

MANILA, Philippines – Time is running out on the fast-growing Asian region to step up and help prevent catastrophic climate change, foreign experts said yesterday.

Nine workers of a furniture shop in Taytay, Rizal, scrambled to escape the fire raging in their sleeping quarters Wednesday morning, unaware that one of their colleagues was trapped. After the blaze was put out in an hour, firemen found the charred body of Alvin Lorenzano, 27, under a still smoldering heap of debris. The…

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang conceded yesterday there was still much to be done to ensure media protection in the country, but welcomed the report released by the Washington-based advocacy organization Freedom House ranking the Philippines the highest in press freedom in Southeast Asia in 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid tight security and sweltering heat, the 45th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors opened  at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila, Wednesday.

(CNN) — Barefoot and covered in dirt and sweat, 14-year-old Dante Campilan pulls weeds from orderly rows of sugar cane. Wearing an oversized red cap to protect him from the scorching Philippine sun, Dante is doing work that should be reserved for men, not children.

Granting a P125 across-the-board minimum wage increase for 40 million workers is going to cost P1.43 trillion for a P9-trillion economy, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday. With this argument, Mr. Aquino ruled out the grant of such an increase in his Labor Day speech, promising instead a P11.2-billion educational assistance and a P1.1-billion skills…

LABOR Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz called on Filipino workers and job seekers on Tuesday to adapt to the changing industry landscape by “retooling and retraining” for employment security as she cites glaring problem of skills mismatch, where only 1,000 applicants were hired on the spot when there are, in fact, 135,000 job vacancies offered in Metro…

QUEZON City, May 1, 2012—A labor alliance urged the government to raise the labor standards being implemented in business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, commonly known as call centers, due to the alleged ill-effects of the nature of their work to employees’ health and well-being.

HOUSEHOLD service workers remain as the most in demand job outside the country, according to Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA) Regional Coordinator Rose Jervoso.

‘Do more to crack down’ on child labor Agusan del Norte: Children in the village of Baleguian in the southern Philippines have to be strong to survive.

PRESIDENT Aquino bared on Tuesday his administration’s “investment” in long-term measures to improve workers’ welfare in the country, including an P11.2-billion education-aid program that would benefit 1.6 million members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS).

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ONLY 863 Philippine-educated nurses took the US professional licensing test for the first time in the first quarter this year, down 40 percent from the 1,454 who took that test for the first time in the same quarter in 2011, Rep. Arnel Ty said Monday.