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50-50 split between profits and workers’ wages more than fair — IBON

May 1, 2024

Raising the minimum wage to a living wage corrects decades of injustice where workers create huge profits for employers but receive meager wages.

Status of PUV franchise consolidation

April 30, 2024

What is the cost of PUV modernization? Lower incomes, debt, and even lost livelihoods for small drivers and operators. Looming fare hikes and an even more chaotic and unreliable mass transport system for commuters.

The cost of PUV Modernization

April 30, 2024

What is the cost of PUV modernization? Lower incomes, debt, and even lost livelihoods for small drivers and operators. Looming fare hikes and an even more chaotic and unreliable mass transport system for commuters.

Biggest Balikatan under Marcos Jr government: Most troops, most countries

April 24, 2024

The Balikatan military exercises with the United States (US) under the Marcos Jr administration are the biggest ever with the number of US troops growing from a few hundred in the 1990s to as much as 12,000 last year. The growing show of US military force is the US signalling its readiness to go to […]

PH biggest recipient of US aid in Southeast Asia

April 18, 2024

The Philippines is the biggest recipient of US aid in Southeast Asia. This isn’t really help for Filipinos but the US ensuring the Philippines plays its critical role in upholding US superpower military and economic dominance in the region.

Modernong Jeep: Saan na pupulutin ang komyuter?

April 15, 2024

PRAYMER

Kasinghalaga pero hindi masyado tinatalakay ng pamahalaan ang kahihinatnan ng mga komyuter. Pagsapit ng Mayo, paano na lang ang karaniwang komyuter na ngayon pa nga lang ay hirap na sa pagbyahe dahil sa masahol na sistema ng pampublikong transportasyon sa Pilipinas?

Lack of gainful employment belies govt claims of improving jobs market — IBON

April 13, 2024

The Marcos Jr administration keeps touting that the labor market is improving. But there is a serious disconnect between this government hype and the actual reality of millions of Filipinos.