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Migrant workers surviving the PANDEMIC!
“With the pandemic, you must think about it and appreciate what you have. The get-together, the values, people have to learn from this, some people don’t, I did. What I am struggling (Arturo pause for a while and sigh), personally COVID hit me in my lungs, and so my lungs is working less 65%”, Arturo Cantu narrates.
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COMMUNITY PANTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ge8nTBr-8 This phenomenal initiative has grown into a SOCIAL MOVEMENT and steadily gaining popularity and support. Now with over 400 sites of operation all over the country, barely 2 weeks, since its inception in a humble makeshift at Maginhawa St.
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WORKERS OF THE WORLD, QUO VADIS? THE Post-Pandemic Challenge to Labor!
“While the CEOs are at constant pace with all the technological developments, organized labor and trade Unions are still busy with their old and traditional ways of doing things, and employees and workers are left alone content with gratification of having a smartphone and FB and Utube and Tiktok.”
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Surge in Activism Seen This 2021!
CTHUR noted that the recent actions of the Department of Labor (DOLE) and the Duterte administration barely answer the problems confronting the workers but rather uses the Pandemic as a cover to further suppress workers rights and red-tag anyone critical to the government.
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IF NOT FOR THE UNION: A personal realization.
The Union as we know it, protects the welfare of the workers. It is why they go through tedious process of collective bargaining agreement- to make sure that the best interest of workers are well thought of and protected.
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From Pandemic to Politics: Culinary Union hustles the hurdles!
“Donald Trump is a threat to the livelihood of workers and our families. Since August 1st, canvassers have been in the streets knocking on doors, talking to voters, and getting out the vote for Biden-Harris. Every political effort draws from the Culinary Union’s 85-years of rich knowledge of effective voter contact, which is rooted in the principle of working people talking to each other about the importance of building power through voting,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, Treasurer-Secretary of the Culinary Union.
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WHO WILL THE UNIONS ENDORSE?
“Donald Trump is a threat to the livelihoods of workers and our families,” said Geoconda Argüello-Kline, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union Local 226 in Las Vegas.
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HOTEL WORKERS & LABOR UNIONS VS COVID19!
“This is a very challenging year and yet that did not stop the union from being creative and resourceful in making things possible to help alleviate the feeling of uncertainty and worry. The officers saw through their needs and addressed it. Working despite the risk and doing it happily for Solidarity. Mabuhay ang NUWHRAIN PPC!
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Mindanaons unaware of candidates from labor!
by Alyanna Kassandra Orlina, Carla Joy Pagala, & Kathryn Gorgonia, PUP Interns Manila, Philippines — Candidates from labor namely, Atty. Renato Arellano, Atty. Allan Montaño, Atty. Sonny Matula, Atty Neri Colmenares and Leody de Guzman are virtually unknown to the voters from Mindanao
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CPM’s labor leaders awareness survey in Luzon 2019!
by Maclane Cobarrubias and Esperanza Nocum, PUP Interns MANILA, Philippines — In line with the upcoming senatorial elections on May 2019, the Center for People’s Media (CPM) in collaboration with interns from Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) conducted a survey
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