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No slave: OFWs fight back
Long before President Rodrigo Duterte expressed outrage over the violent death of Filipina domestic worker Joanna Daniela Demafelis in Kuwait, this middle east nation that is about 17 times smaller than the Philippines, has been a virtual kill zone for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
The Department...
Surviving an ‘acoustics war’
As with any government agency accused of corrupt practices, working for the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may not fall under someone’s definition of a dream job.
This gets even worse if the order from Malacañang includes cleaning up the said agency. Many might...
Lotto stories
In a lotto station a block away from my home was a long line of people handing out their lotto cards to the cashier. There was a woman in her duster dress who seemed to cast a prayer on her lotto card before...
Rise of the Filipino middle class
The ambition seems straightforward enough. By 2040, we will have a society where Filipinos will enjoy a stable and comfortable lifestyle, secure in the knowledge that there is enough to meet daily needs and unexpected expenses.
It will be a society where Filipinos can...
Labor’s not so middle class woes
Third time’s the charm, but not in this case. The third dialogue of organized labor with President Rodrigo Duterte to put a stop to contractualization ended in another waiting game.
Last February 7, Malacañang invited labor groups for a dialogue with the President on...
The vax on both your houses
Worse than any natural cataclysm is a disaster created by humans—take the horror that is the Denvaxia uproar.
As of the latest reports in the daily newspapers, more than 830,000 Filipinos have been inoculated with Sanofi Pasteur’s CYD-TDV—better known as Dengvaxia, a live-attenuated tetravalent...
