Archive for the ‘Labor’ Category

The Filipino worker today

VERA Files took snap shots of the state of the country’s greatest resource,Filipino manpower, on Labor Day: JENNY Tanael, 47, is a wife of a minimum wage earner and mother of a contractual worker. Her eldest son Juan Paolo keeps on hunting for a job each time his five-month contract in a fast food chain [...]

May 6, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Labor, Vera Files  10 Comments

Binawi ang ban ng OFW sa 41 na bansa

Heto na naman. Pumalpak si Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz sa pag-anunsyo na may ban sa pagpadala ng manggagawang Pilipino sa 41 na bansang hindi pumirma sa kasunduan sa Pilipinas para protektahan ang mga Pilipino na nagtatrabaho doon. Ngayon, hindi niya alam kung paano babawiin dahil sa masamang reaksyun ng mga bansang apektado. Sabi niya pansamantala [...]

November 5, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Labor, OFW concerns  20 Comments

Tigilan na ang pagpadala ng domestic helpers sa Middle East

Dapat tingnan ng pamahalaan ang problema ngayon ng ating domestic helpers sa Saudi Arabia na oportunidad para ibahin, o kaya tigilan na ang pagpadala ng domestic helpers sa Middle East. Marami ngayon sa ating mga mahirap na kababayan na may mga kamag-anak na domestic helper sa Saudi Arabia ang nangangamba na mawalan na hanapbuhay dahil [...]

July 3, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Labor, Malaya  10 Comments

Ang ibang biktima ng sakuna sa Japan

Updates: In Libya: Missiles strike in first wave of allied assault http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42164455/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ In Japan: Situation in Nuke plant stabilizing; radiation found in Japanese milk, spinach http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42165497/ns/world_news-asiapacific/ Click on photo to view it enlarged Sinabi ni Dennis Garcia sa kanyang Facebook wall na kasama ang mga freedom fighters sa Libya sa mga biktima ng lindol, tsunami [...]

March 20, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Labor  4 Comments

JDV’s connection to Gaddafi

In the light of the United Nations Security Council’s strong action Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia’s letter to the beleaguered strongman seems an exercise in futility and just a boast of his international connections. The 15-nation UN Security U.N. Security Council Saturday unanimously imposed travel bans and froze the [...]

February 27, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Labor, Malaya  44 Comments

Makataong media para sa ina ni George Francis

Sana naman respetuhin ng media karapatan ng ina ni George Francis, ang sanggol na iniwan sa basurahan sa Gulf Air nong isang linggo, sa “privacy” o pag-iisa habang inaayos niya ang kanyang buhay. Sana naman sundin ng media ang paki-usap ng Department of Social Welfare and Development na huwag siya at ang kanyang pamilya pagpiyestahan. [...]

September 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Labor  17 Comments

Hinagpis ng mga OFW

Kahindik-hindik ang nangyari kay Asria Samad Abdul, 34 taong gulang na overseas foreign worker (OFW) sa Kuwait. Ayun sa report, nakita ang bangkay ni Asria, na tubong Datu Odin Sinsuat sa Maguindanao, sa disyerto ng Kabd na maraming saksak. Mukhang tinurture muna siya tapos sinagassan ng kotse para kunwari namatay siya dahil nasagasaan. Nahuli na [...]

July 20, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Human Rights, Labor  13 Comments

Kalbaryo ni Cielo sa DFA

Update, April 5, 2010: I just got this text message from Ed Malaya, DFA spokesman: “The DFA OUMWA office has initiated an internal investigation on the complaints aired by Cielo Corcuera. “Initial findings indicate that the documents pertaining to the last salary and death benefits of Arlin Bello we acted upon but inadvertently sent to [...]

April 4, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Abante, Labor  17 Comments

Poll bets vow spending more for OFWs

by Ruben Jeffrey Asuncion OFW Journalism Consortium IF elected, presidential candidates Gilberto Teodoro Jr., Manuel Villar and Richard Gordon would throw cash and strike deals with labor receiving countries in relation to overseas employment of Filipinos. Former Defense Secretary Teodoro and Senator Villar, however, failed to say where they would get the money for the [...]

March 5, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Labor  31 Comments

Winners of 2009 Pinoy Expat/OFW blog awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Pinoy Expat/OFW Blog Awards. The awarding ceremonies was held at the Philamlife Auditorium last Dec. 27. The winners are: 1.Isla de Nebz (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) http://isladenebz.blogspot.com/2009/07/peba-entry-where-my-ofw-dollars-go.html 2.Pink Tarha Girls (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) http://thepinktarha.blogspot.com/2009/08/ang-tunay-na-katas-ng-saudi.html 3.Wits and Spirits (Bangkok, Thailand) http://josephilsaraspe.blogspot.com/2009/08/going-abroad-is-dream-of-almost-every.html

December 30, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Labor  One Comment