(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 Philippine Exporters Confederation (PHILEXPORT), and trade union federations, Federation of Free Workers (FFW), Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO), and the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) – cited four main issues hounding the PhilHealth.
Sunyani PSWU launches membership database
The Sunyani Municipal branch of the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Ghana has launched a membership database to capture all members in the Municipality for proper planning and implementation of programmes.
The database also aims at gathering vital and accurate information of all members for other purposes such as knowing the pension dates of every Union member to assist in processing their pension benefits for easy accessibility.
Launching the programme, Mr. Kofi Asare Asianowa, the Union’s Industrial Relations Officer (IRO) for the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions urged members to be committed and enroll on the system for successful implementation because “it is a nationwide programme which is gradually being extended to all the Union’s branches”.
After two years of litigation, the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Enugu chapter, yesterday, announced that its members will soon resume full operations in the state.
This followed the National Industrial Court (NIC), Enugu Division, judgment which ordered the state government, police, Department of State Service (DSS) and other agencies to stop harassing and obstructing the operations of TOAN, being a duly registered trade union.
As part of preparation for smooth operations, the association has written the DSS and police, to inform them of their plans to resume work, which was suspended since 2017 following leadership crisis between it and the Association of Tricycle Riders Union (ATRTU).
Liz Truss said diversity efforts should be based on ‘facts’ not ‘fashion’
17 December 2020 • 8:30pm
On Thursday, Ms Truss unveiled an overhaul of equalities policy that involves a renewed focus on tackling poverty and regional disparities
Credit: Paul Grover
White working-class children have been “neglected” because the Government has prioritised helping other groups facing discrimination, the Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss has said.
On Thursday, Ms Truss unveiled an overhaul of equalities policy that involves a renewed focus on tackling poverty and regional disparities.
Outlining the Government’s “moral and practical mission” to build a fairer society, she said that for too long the equalities debate has focused on the nine characteristics protected by law, which include race and gender, at the expense of class and geographical location.
By Martin Kerin
LAST week saw the first anniversary of the 2019 General Election. It was, in the truest sense of the word, a seismic election. The implications of it will be felt in years to come, and it is an election which is up there with 1945, 1979 and 1997 in terms of importance.
As a Labour member and elected Labour councillor, it is clear that it was an election which posed an existential threat to my party. As of 10pm on 12 December 2019, the party was placed on life support. As of December 2020, I believe the party is off life support, but not yet fully recovered.