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Banana workers picket Sumifru Phils. office

Kilusang Mayo Uno-SMR | Davao City - Workers from Packing Plant 90 of Sumifru Phils. Inc. in Compostela, Compostela Valley  picket in front of Sumifru Phils office at Buhisan, Brgy. Tibungco, Davao City this morning to protest the unfair labor practice committed by the company.

 
The workers under the Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Suyapa Farm-Packing Plant 90-National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (NAMASUFA-NAFLU-KMU) hit the company for its refusal to face them in the negotiating table for the proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement by the union.
Balance Piston sa Mindanao, tinututulan ng grupong KAWAGIB

Bai Ali Indayla | 0905.924.8424 | kawagibphils@yahoo.com | 

Lungsod ng Cotabato – Mariing tinututulan ng grupong KAWAGIB ang inilulunsad na pagsasanay militar ng mga sundalong Pilipino at sundalong Amerikano sa Camp Siongco, 6th Infantry Division, Maguindanao na tinatawag na Balance Piston ’11-03. Noong Setyembre 01 dumating ang sampung opisyal ng tropang kano sa pangunguna ni Capt. Brent Olson na maglulunsad ng pagsasanay sa loob ng labing limang araw.

Lease is not equivalent to peace: resolve the social roots of war

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros | PRESS STATEMENT | Reference: BAYAN-Negros Public Information Department | Mobile #:09217859554 | The more Governor Alfredo Marañon, Jr. talks about his concept of peace, the more we suspect that he is equating it with business.
 
As the governor’s mind is kept busy with the multi-million selling and leasing of Capitol properties, he is also calling on armed groups particularly the New People’s Army to lay down their arms and join what he calls as the “mainstream” of society.

His Excellency's excellent mistake of kutso-kutso demands an exit

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros | PRESS STATEMENT | August 18, 2011 | Reference: Christian Tuayon, Secretary General | Mobile #:09217859554 |  If there is any amount of decency left in him, His Excellency, Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, Jr. should beat a hasty retreat.
 
As the Senate continues to investigate the used chopper controversy, the leadership of the National Police should also probe their Region 6 police director to see if one of the rotors has been stuck in Querol’s brain.

Rice self sufficiency program needs bigger budget -- Bantay Bigas

LITA MARIANO, Spokesperson, Bantay Bigas | ROMAN M. SANCHEZ | National President, NAFEDA | CP # 0915-5690372 | Rice Monitor group Bantay Bigas said the budget for National Rice Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) of Php6.2 billion is unrealistic if government is really serious about its rice self sufficiency target by 2013.
Bantay Bigas spokesperson Lita Mariano said “the DA’s budget allocation especially for its rice program only mirrors government’s insincerity in achieving rice self sufficiency for the country”.