{"id":6728,"date":"2018-04-16T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibon.org\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2018-04-20T07:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:35:29","slug":"filipino-workers-plight-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/filipino-workers-plight-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino workers&#8217; plight continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As International Workers\u2019 Day approaches, many Filipino workers still endure poor quality jobs that lack benefits, are low-paying, insecure and under unfavorable working conditions. Those workers who attempt to assert their labor rights face repressive measures such as losing their jobs, violent strike dispersals, and other rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The Duterte administration\u2019s pursuit and implementation of neoliberal policies, like the two-tiered wage system, compressed work week, <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">and the executive order that does not end contractualization, have worsened the situation of workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Thus, Filipino workers and other marginalized sectors continue to fight for real measures that will not only end contractualization but advance a strategic plan for national industrialization. This is crucial in creating stable jobs for the Filipino people, and pushing genuine economic development. <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/laborday2018?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">LaborDay2018 #Facts&amp;Figures2017<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As International Workers\u2019 Day approaches, many Filipino workers still endure poor quality jobs that lack benefits, are low-paying, insecure and under unfavorable working conditions. Those workers who attempt to assert their labor rights face repressive measures such as losing their jobs, violent strike dispersals, and other rights violations. The Duterte administration\u2019s pursuit and implementation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[102,4,510],"tags":[347,1261,1260,116,1262],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}