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Love, Social Justice & Corporate Social Responsibility in the time of global challenges

“There she is,” the woman in the car told her son, as she pointed to a petite and thin sampaguita garland vendor sitting on the stone steps of Mercury Drug in Scout Borromeo, Quezon City.     Rising, the vendor’s pale, harried face dissolved into...

Workers’ coalition calls on government to extend urgent legal assistance to undocumented Filipinos in the U.S.

This week, leaders of the NAGKAISA Labor Coalition met with representatives from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in Manila to discuss, among others,  the challenges faced by Filipino workers in the United States, particularly those who are undocumented. The meeting shed light...

Labor group welcomes suspension of cashless toll policy; questions TRB’s “bias toward toll operators”

The NAGKAISA Labor Coalition has welcomed the suspension of the mandatory cashless toll collection system, citing its unfair impact on low-income motorists. “This is a win for our advocacy and will benefit workers and motorists who will be burdened by an anti-poor policy. We...

Global human rights abuse tracker spurns government anew for charging activists, civil society groups with financing terrorism

Human Rights Watch—an independent organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world—has criticized Philippine authorities for “filing baseless terrorism financing charges against civil society groups and activists.” The global human rights abuse tracker added that the charges were apparently filed...

Labor groups welcome House’s P200 wage hike proposal; PBBM says proposal needs more study

With Congress set to go on recess next week to give way to the election campaign period, labor groups race against time to have the wage hike proposal for workers enacted into law. Various labor groups welcomed the House of Representatives’ proposal for a...

Labor coalition calls on workers to up the pressure on pending wage hike bill in Congress

The Nagkaisa Labor Coalition has urged workers to keep up the pressure on the Congress Labor Committee, as well as the district representatives—demanding swift action on the long-pending P150 wage hike bill. Nagkaisa stressed the wage hike bill needs to be passed before Congress...

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LWUA Administrator Guiling “Gene” A. Mamondiong bared that in order to resolve the financial problems encountered by water districts, some of them entered into...

In vaccines we trust

Three million children’s lives saved each year. This is the greatest impact of vaccines in our world today. Vaccines now account for 95% of global...

Road to Paradise: Palawan’s environment and tourism development

Our story begins with a road trip to paradise—a 360-kilometer drive from Palawan province’s bustling capital of Puerto Princesa to El Nido, where not...

Labor center hails landmark DOLE-CHR agreement

Calls for enhanced cooperation with CHR to protect trade unionists The 200,000 strong Federation of Free Workers (FFW) labor center lauded a momentous partnership between...