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Article

3 Jan 2011

Author:
Marya Salmat, Vox Bikol [Philippines]

Workers Gear Up for More Battles as Aquino Gov't Continues to Favor Big Business

...the Aquino government is merely continuing Arroyo’s economic and labor policies...Aside from rising prices and ignored demands for social justice, [there are] continuing extra-judicial killings and harassments of leaders and members of progressive people’s organizations...Far from getting rid of the Arroyo government’s infamous counter-insurgency program...which regarded organized workers...as enemies of the state...the Aquino government even extended it...As a result, five union leaders...[were killed] in 2010...as they assert their legal right to organize, bargain for decent wages and humane working conditions...New unions continue to face hardships on the way to legal recognition...[i]n 2010...[there were] a total of 161 cases of trade union and human rights violations...