A labor NGO questions the timeliness of the constitutional change (cha-cha) amidst low wages and high inflation rates. The concern comes after the airing of the TV ads by Pirma group and signature campaigns urging…
A labor research group takes on a more critical stance as it welcomes the passage of Security of Tenure Bill on final reading, saying that the broad labor unity and massive nationwide protests have pushed…
As the new SSS law takes effect on March 5, nonprofit labor organization Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc. (EILER) says that new combined monthly members contributions rate will increase by 62.91% in…
Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) strongly condemns the red-tagging and illegal arrests by the 71st Infantry Battalion of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Compostela Valley, Davao Region in Mindanao. Latest…
Nonprofit organization Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc. (EILER) calls the attention of Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono as President Rodrigo Duterte received him in Davao City for a three-day official visit. Minister…
We denounce Indonesian government’s violent crackdown on civil society and peoples’ movements at the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meeting in Bali. The national government and the IMF-WBG are to be held into account for shutting…
Union busting, harassment, and illegal dismissals continue in Alorica. Amid intensified attacks on job security and union busting measures employed by Alorica and West Contact Services, Inc. management, the Unified Employees of Alorica (UEA) filed…
The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization, hailed the passage of Republic Act 11058 or the Philippine Occupational Safety and Health Law. The Act Strengthening Compliance with Occupational…
The assertion of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on ‘decent budget’ of a minimum wage earner monthly falls short of the family living wage pegged at P1,173 per day (P977 for a family…
A labor non-government organization (NGO) decries the unlawful arrest and detention of Sister Patricia Fox, NDS, a 71-year old Australian missionary of the international Roman Catholic congregation Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, from the…