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Sentro Celebrates Labor Day with NAGKAISA, Demands Protection of Worker Rights 05/02/2012 02:49:43  The new trade union center, SENTRO, which includes all LEARN and APL affiliates marched towards Malacanang with the new Philippine labor coalition, NAGKAISA, composed of 40 labor groups demanding the government to address the worsening precarious work in the country and certify as urgent the passage of security of tenure bill for the private sector (HB 4853) and for the public sector (SB 2875) that are now pending in Congress; support the workers’ demand for across the board wage increases for both the public and private sectors; address the failures of market-oriented policies in public utilities by scraping the EPIRA law and the Oil Deregulation law; prevent the violent demolitions of informal settlers by issuing an Executive Order that would stop the demolition of informal settlers and fast track the development of decent and adequate housing for the poor; provide solid guarantees for workers’ right to self-organization; and the immediate ratification of ILO convention 189, decent work for domestic workers. Read More. |
New alliance unites Philippine labor 05/02/2012 02:24:45 Women labor leaders strike a pose in front of a banner during the
launch of the Nagkaisa Coalition on April 23, 2012, which includes 40 labor groups.
(photo by Pots de Leon, InterAksyon.com)
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| The workers’ education program
includes courses and trainings on trade unionism, political-economy
and gender. |
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| LEARN publishes “Kilos!”,
a quarterly workers’ newspaper; “Babaylan”,
the women workers’ journal; “Edukador”, an
internal newsletter for labor educators; labor research studies;
and manuals/primers for trade unionists and women activists. |
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| The Labor Education Research Network
is committed to provide the working people empowering education
towards an integrated and responsive trade unionism. |
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