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Filipino workers productivity increasing but real wages falling — IBON
Mayo 8, 2023
The gains from growing productivity are not going to workers as higher wages but to the profits of corporations and the wealth of the super-rich. Giving workers their fair share through decent wages will uplift their lives and also spur economic progress.
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
Mayo 2, 2023
IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden
The State of Filipino Employment Informality
Abril 29, 2023
Most Filipinos are so poor and lacking savings that they can’t afford to be unemployed. But there are so little regular formal jobs available that the overwhelming majority struggle with self-employment, informal work, or irregular jobs in informal establishments.
PH minimum wages are family poverty wages – IBON
Abril 28, 2023
Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the official poverty threshold for a family of five.
NCR nominal vs real wages
Abril 26, 2023
Higher inflation is eroding the nominal wage, but due to infrequent and meager wage increases, the real value of this has even declined. In the NCR, the real wage as of March 2023 is the lowest in 12 years and lower than 34 years ago.
WHO is committed to whom?
Abril 26, 2023
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The World Health Organization is supposed to be the lead global institution for health. But it is too easily influenced by powerful HICs and big private institutions in the programs they implement. The COVID-19 vaccine profits they raked in are just the most recent example of this.
Top 10 companies responsible for half of the Philippine’s residual plastic wastes in the last 5 years
Abril 22, 2023
The global plastic pollution crisis is mainly due to big corporations’ single-use plastic production. Here are the top 10 corporations behind residual plastic waste in the Philippines, contributing to global warming and posing a significant threat to biodiversity.
Sales of agrochemical corporations in the world in 2021
Abril 22, 2023
The Philippines was among the first countries to promote the use of inorganic chemicals and input-dependent crop varieties through the Marcos Sr-era Green Revolution. To date, the world’s top-selling agrochemical companies are among the suppliers of chemical and inorganic inputs which the Philippine government continues to usher into domestic farms. This has also partly led […]
