Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed today pronouncements of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo, Employer’s Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) President Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. and Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Secretary General Ernesto Herrera – all of which go against wage hikes.  read full article »

Kilusang Mayo Uno lambasted Arroyo’s speech at her government’s EDSA I commemoration kick-off rights, saying that “the world will not forgive an EDSA-3 but will instead condemn the Philippines as a country whose political system is unstable.”  read full article »

The Kilusang Mayo Uno condemns the Malacanang plan to implement moratorium on wage increases or suspend increases in salaries due to the financial crisis in the world that included the Philippines.

According to Prestoline Suyat, KMU Spokesperson, precisely because of the crisis workers’ wages should be increase, specially if their families solely depend on the salary for existence.  read full article »

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Pebrero 10, 2009

Moratoryum sa dagdag sahod, mas magpapahirap pa sa manggagawang binibiktima na ng krisis - KMU

KINONDENA ng militanteng Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) ang plano ng Malakanyang na ipatupad ang wage increase moratorium o moratoryum sa pagtataas ng sahod para sa mga manggagawa dahil daw sa nararanasang krisis pampinansyal ng mundo, kabilang na ang Pilipinas.  read full article »

‘Tuloy ang laban!’

After about 3 months of detention, KMU’s chief legal counsel and 5 activist-leaders from Southern Tagalog, were released from prison yesterday, Feb 5.

The six were maliciously charged with multiple murder and multiple frustrated for allegedly participating in an NPA ambush in Mindoro last 2006.  read full article »

Kinundena ng Kilusang Mayo Uno ang Department of Labor at ang mga inihaing resolusyon sa ipinatawag nitong “tri-partite” summit hinggil sa krisis sa trabaho noong biyernes, na nagsusulong ng mga labor-flex schemes  read full article »

Kilusang Mayo Uno told SSS President Romulo Neri today to stop defending his plan to contribute P12.5 billion of SSS funds to the Arroyo government’s P330 billion economic resiliency package.  read full article »