Labor

Unemployment worsened even with more foreign investment

Proponents of charter change insist that more FDI from changing the Constitution’s economic provisions will create job opportunities and decrease unemployment. Has unemployment decreased as FDI increased? Annual FDI inflows increased from an average of US$1.6 billion annually in the decade 2000-2009

March 23, 2023

Labor·Overseas Filipinos·Revolutionary movement·Women

Hustisya para sa mga biktima ng human trafficking, ipinanawagan

Ginunita noong Marso 17 ng grupong Migrante Philippines, kasama ang mga pamilya ng mga biktima ng human trafficking, ang ika-28 anibersaryo ng pagbitay kay Flor Contemplacion ng gubyerno ng Singapore noong 1995. Nagmartsa sila tungong Mendiola sa Manila dala-dala ang panawagang hustisya

March 25, 2023

Economy·Employment·Institutions·Labor

Job creation weakened despite rapid FDI growth

One of the key arguments of charter change proponents is that liberalizing the economy to FDI will create more jobs. But job creation has actually weakened even as foreign direct investment inflows increased. In the past two decades, annual FDI inflows increased

March 23, 2023

Alternative media·Labor·People

Makatarungang pagbabago para sa mga jeepney driver

Lumitaw na naman ang mga problemang kaakibat ng Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) dahil sa nakaraang welga ng mga jeepney driver. Ilan sa mga problema ang kakulangan ng suportang pinansyal para sa mga tsuper na maaapektuhan ng programa at ang hindi

March 22, 2023

Alternative media·Employment·Labor·People

Delivery riders, dapat regular sa kanilang mga trabaho

Sa kasalukuyan, napakahalaga sa ating lipunan ang serbisyo ng mga delivery rider. Sapagkat dini-deliver ng mga delivery rider ang mga gamit, bagay at dokumento na kailangan nating ipadala o tanggapin kaugnay ng ating mga transaksyon o hanapbuhay. Noong una, tanging LBC lamang

March 22, 2023

Economy·Institutions·Labor

Worker wages not keeping up with their productivity

Worker productivity constantly increases, but workers don’t feel this with higher wages. NCR worker productivity increased by 42% over 2012-2021, measured as gross regional domestic product divided by employment. But the minimum wage only went up by 18%, so the productivity increases

March 17, 2023

Economy·Labor·Revolutionary movement

Kawalang trabaho, tumindi noong Enero

Tulad ng inaasahan, dumami ang bilang ng mga manggagawang Pilipino na walang trabaho noong Enero. Pinatingkad nito ang kahungkagan ng mga pahayag ng mga upisyal sa ekonomya ng rehimeng Marcos na “bumabawi na” ang ekonomya. Pinasisinungalingan din nito pahayag ni NEDA Sec.

March 17, 2023

Economy·Feature·Institutions·Labor

Kung ayaw maraming dahilan

Relentlessly increasing inflation in the Philippines is already among the worst in Southeast Asia, exceeded only in Lao People’s Democratic Republic and war-torn Myanmar. The headline inflation rate in January is the highest in over 14 years and is expected to stay

March 6, 2023