Page 11 - Labor Attach News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Labor Attaché in Tokyo Marie Rose Escalada (left) and Hidilyn Diaz (Photos from Zoom, Philippine Airlines) During that short conversation, the 30-year-old Diaz imparted to Escalada some inspirational words that the latter described as “very touching”. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) official said she later told overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) about it. “I spoke with her [Diaz] but only virtually kasi very strict po yung Olympic Committee sa Japan (because the Olympic Committee was very strict),” Escalada told Manila-based reporters during a press briefing on Zoom. �...

US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia Declassified US diplomatic cables from the 1970s have revealed the intense, daily preoccupation by the American State Department—and its many informants throughout the Labor Party and trade union leadership—with how to contain and quash the eruption of potentially revolutionary working-class rebellions in Australia and internationally. The extremely limited media coverage of a recently-published study of the documents has focused on the revelation that Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime min...

Published July 6, 2021, 10:36 AM The Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been directed to go after the owner of a foreign recruitment firm who allegedly raped a Filipina overseas worker, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Tuesday, July 6. (File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting) In his urgent memorandum to Labor Attaché Fidel Macauyag, DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III instructed the POLO to work with authorities there for immediate legal action on the case. “I will do everything possible to help our OFW [overseas Filipino worker] fight ba...

(Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sunday, July 4, calling the Philippines’ achievement “historic”. “This marks a significant shift in the policy-making global tripartite body that has been traditionally led by big, powerful member-countries,” DOLE said. The ILO is a United Nations (UN) agency mandated to advance social and economic justice through setting international labor standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialized agency of the UN. DOLE Secretary Silvestr...

Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated. Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media] The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, which have always fought to tie workers to the requirements of the corporate profit system and to the Au...