Press Release
July 26, 2010

Sa daang matuwid:

Walang “boss” na busabos, hamon ng manggagawa sa SONA ni P-Noy

Walang “boss” na busabos sa daang matuwid!

Ito ang hamong ibinato ng hanay ng manggagawa sa bagong administrasyon kasabay ng kanilang pagmartsa sa kalsada sa okasyon ng unang State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Pangulong Noynoy Aquino III.

Ayon sa Partido ng Manggagawa, dahil idineklara ni P-Noy na “kayo ang aking boss” sa kanyang inaugural speech noong Hunyo 30, umaasa ngayon ang mga manggagawa na malalagyan ito ng laman sa pamamagitan ng seryosong pagharap sa mga problemang pasan-pasan ng naghihirap na mga “boss”.

Sinabi ng tagapangulo ng Partido ng Manggagawa na si Renato Magtubo, walang kahulugan ang salitang “boss” sa ordinaryong manggagawa kung ang buhay nila ay mananatiling busabos dahil sa nararanasang kahirapan at kawalang dignidad sa buhay.

Press Release
July 25, 2010

PAL workers to join SONA march to ask P-Noy to defend regular jobs

Rank and file workers of Philippine Airlines are joining labor groups’ SONA march tomorrow to ask President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to save their jobs and put an end to the labor contractualization policy.

Some 500 members of Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) will join the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) contingent along the Tandang Sora and Commonwealth Avenues around 10:00 am tomorrow before marching with the multisectoral groups Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and the Kampanya para sa Makataong Pamunuhay (KAMP) towards the Batasan Complex.

PALEA members have prepared a replica of a PAL plane where they wrote a message for P-Noy asking the President to stop the planned layoff of some 2,600 PAL employees. The PALEANs have been demanding in particular that a ‘midnignt decision’ issued by DOLE on June 15, 2010 be reversed.

Press Release
July 21, 2010

Comelec ruled on ‘intent of the Arroyos’ not on ‘intent of the law’–labor group

The labor party-list group Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) lambasted the Comelec for consistently erring on very important questions on party-list representations.

According to PM chair Renato Magtubo, the Comelec is making contempt of its own not only by making self-contradictory rulings but also on making itself highly vulnerable to suspicions that sans propriety, these rulings are nothing but political trade off if not an outright fiscal transaction.

“Had Kasangga party-list still had Lourdes Arroyo in its list of nominees, the Comelec could have granted it the same privilege as that of Ang Galing Pinoy whose nominee is the former presidential son, Mikey Arroyo,” explained Magtubo.

The labor group said it was obviously the “intent of the Arroyos” and other favoured groups and not the “intent of the party-list law” that were considered by the Comelec in issuing this shameful ruling.