DATOS July 2024 Issue
Ang kakulangan ng akses sa panlipunang proteksyon ay nagsisilbing malaking panganib sa buhay at kagalingan ng mga mamamayan ng daigdig. Ang isyu na ito ng DATOS (July 2024) ay kinapapalooban ng ilang tala at pagsusuri sa…
Philippines
Wage increase and price control more urgent than cha-cha
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…
Labor NGO decries Nestlé-Wyeth union busting and mass lay-off
Video of Wyeth Philippines Progressive Workers Union on May 18, 2023 prior to the mass lay-off of unionists and union leaders. (via Facebook Live: https://fb.watch/kGPK8PXwBD/) The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) decries…
DATOS May 2023 Issue
Ang DATOS sa mga pagkilos ng mga manggagawa ay tulong babasahin na inilalathala ng Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER). Mangyaring ipasa o ibahagi sa kapwa manggagawa pagkatapos basahin. Maaaring i-download ang bagong issue ng…
Labor Bulletin Q3 2022
Download the September 2022 issue of Labor Bulletin here.
Palace’s statement on endo: disappointing and not surprising
A labor NGO expresses dismay over the statement made by the new appointee of President Duterte that putting an end to ‘endo’ or contractualization is no longer a priority of the administration in its last…
PH listing as one of the worst countries for workers is Duterte’s Legacy
Citing the ITUC Global Rights Index 2021, a labor NGO laments that the country’s labor rights situation worsened under the Duterte administration. The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research emphasized that the Philippines has…
Fight for the rights of Children! End poverty, end child labor now!
EILER’s statement on the World Day Against Child Labor EILER enjoins the world in calling an end to child labor, as the United Nations declared 2021 as “the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor.”…
Rising unemployment shows Duterte administration’s failed economic policies
The increase in unemployment rate in the recent Labor Force Survey (LFS) shows the Duterte administration’s neoliberal agenda and failed economic policies further worsened the labor situation amid the pandemic, according to a labor NGO. …
Decision to take back hazard pay of contractual airport workers, unjust
A Labor NGO expresses dismay over the state auditor’s order to recover the hazard pay amounting to P54.36 million given to contractual workers of the Manila International Airport Authority last year. As per the memo…
