UniTeam senatorial candidate Jinggoy Estrada has called for an increase in workers' wages a few days prior to the commemoration of Labor Day on May 1. UniTeam Senate bet Estrada campaigning in Cebu. “It’s been more than a month since I joined the workers’ clamor for a wage increase. What’s...
CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO -- At least 200 personnel from Police Regional Office 1 mobile forces who will make up the Civil Disturbance Management Contingents will be deployed on May 1, Labor Day. Personnel will be deployed in the different strategic locations within the region to ensure peace and...
The Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS) has asked voters to consider candidates in the May 2022 polls that prioritize and advance the labor agenda. Church People-Workers Solidarity FB The group noted how in previous elections, national candidates have made bold promises of abolishing all forms...
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Oliarez called on all city residents looking for a job to join the job fair to be held on May 4 at the Parañaque City Hall starting at 8 a.m. Olivarez said the city government will conduct the job fair in celebration of Labor Day with the theme: "Matatag na...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines on Monday, April 25, bared the labor issues and concerns of teachers and other education workers and pledged to highlight their plight and demands during the observance of Labor Day 2022. (NOEL B. PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) To discuss the...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) are now preparing for the opening of the country’s first hospital for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). In a Facebook post on April 1, DOLE announced that it has recently met with PGH doctors and Overseas...
Over 4,000 individuals either secured jobs or were on the brink of doing so in the aftermath of the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) nationwide simultaneous online job fair on Labor Day last Saturday, May 1. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Of the...
A total of 150 frontline staff of quarantine hotels were among the thousands of workers who benefitted from the symbolic vaccination of laborers against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last Saturday, May 1, as part of the government's celebration of Labor Day. (Manila Public Information Office...
The League of Filipino Students (LFS) slammed the arrest and harassment of over a dozen activists in Zambales and Cebu on Labor Day, May 1. (Photo from LFS) "Today, 11 members of the League have been arrested in Zambales, and at least 14 in Cebu," the group said in a statement on Saturday. Eleven...
(Labor day statement of Former Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.) The paramount concern this labor day is for our leaders to ensure existing jobs are preserved and new employment is created. 4.2 million Filipinos are now unemployed nationwide, with 1 million workers losing their jobs in the NCR-PLUS...
The government should exhaust all means to assist small businesses that have been affected by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to prevent further job losses, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Saturday, May 1. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian Gatchalian issued the appeal as the country...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said the observance of the Labor Day on Saturday, May 1, was peaceful despite the staging of protests by various militant organizations. PNP Chief Gen. Debold Sinas said no untoward incident was noted by the police across the country as of 12 noon, noting that...
