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Urs Byland Bei der Demonstration solle für die Rechte der bei Enzler Reinigungen AG am Standort Biogen/Luterbach beschäftigten Reiniger und Reinigerinnen, aber auch gegen das «Union Busting» – also die systematische Bekämpfung und Unterdrückung von Arbeitnehmervertretungen – protestiert werden, heisst es in einer Medienmitteilung der Organisationen «Freie Arbeiter*innen Union Schweiz» (FAU) und «Industrial Workers of the World» (IWW JAM). Demonstration mit Umzug in der Vorstadt ...

Hanks Welt: Kapitalismus und Sklaverei Ihre Suche in FAZ.NET Darstellung eines nubischen Sklaven im alten Ägypten. Bild: Picture-Alliance Wie sehr beruht unser Wohlstand auf der Ausbeutung Afrikas? Die Zeit der Aufklärung postkolonialistisch auseinander zu nehmen, liegt im Trend. Das muss aber nicht bedeuten, dass das falsch ist. Weitersagen abbrechen Sklaverei, Kolonialismus und Genozid sind die Fundamente, auf denen der Wohlstand des Westens beruht. Die europäisch...

Labor group Federation of Free Workers warned that more workers will lose their jobs this year than last year if government does not step in and fund job

Philippine bishops urged to become brokers of peace Labor groups want religious leaders to bring Duterte back to negotiations with communist rebels Female guerrillas of the New Peoples Army stand to attention in a remote village in the southern Philippine province of Misamis Oriental in this file photo. (Photo: Froilan Gallardo) Two Filipino labor groups have urged the Catholic bishops’ conference and other faith-based organizations to intervene in unofficial peace talks with communist ...

The Philippines could be facing a "worse" unemployment crisis in 2021 unless the government would make immediate and proper interventions.

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Atty. Sonny Matula, FFW president and Nagkaisa chairperson, asked the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, Iglesia ni Cristo, as well as the Muslim Ulamas to help urge the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Communist Party of the Philippine-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) to come to the negotiating table and sincerely talk about how to end the 52-year old fratricidal war. “We ca...

BusinessWorld January 8, 2021 | 7:36 pm The Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) will resume giving cash aid to employees who got the coronavirus after suspending the program in September over budget constraints. “We are ready to open again for cash assistance,” ECC Executive Director Stella Z. Banawis told an online news briefing on Friday. Ms. Banawis said the ECC expanded its cash assistance to cover COVID-related sickness, but had not anticipated the number of applica...

Published January 8, 2021, 4:34 PM The Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) said it has already processed more than half of the 8,000 plus applications it has received for cash assistance. ECC Executive Director Stella Zipagan-Banawis explained that although they suspended last September the applications for cash assistance, they continued processing all the applications they received. “We continued to process all applications we received numbering 8,000 plus. So far, we already processed ...

Published January 7, 2021, 4:49 PM The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) on Thursday, Jan. 7, said a number of workers are still waiting to receive their compensation benefits as the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) has stopped releasing benefits due to lack of available funds. FFW Vice President Julius Cainglet said while claims and applications are still being accepted by the ECC, no benefits have been released. “Officially, they are still accepting claims but there have been no re...

(MANILA BULLETIN) The groups banded under the Leaders’ Forum, a national bipartite committee, said they have submitted a joint letter to PhilHealth dated December 15, 2020, calling for urgent resolution on issues surrounding the agency that have significant impacts on member-employers and workers. In the said letter, the Leaders Forum, composed of business organizations – Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), and the Philippin...