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: DAY 500 ngayon ng pagpapatupad ng community quarantine restrictions sa Pilipinas simula ng pandemya. Pabor pa ba ang manggagawang Pilipino sa napipintong muling pagpapatupad ng hard lockdown sa Metro Manila?

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LABAN SA KAGUTUMAN: 100 Days of the Matimyas Workers Community Pantry will be on July 25, Sunday, 10:00 at 2011 B Matimyas Street, Sampaloc, Manila. This event will coincide on the eve of President Rodrigo Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address.

On our 100th day, we will higlight the government’s response to the worsening state of hunger and food insecurity in the country especially in this time of the pandemic — the key reason for the existence of the initiatives across the country.

Join us and help us continue our operations beyond our 100th day on Sunday. You may continue sending in-kind and cash donations at our pantry in Sampaloc, Manila or via GCash # 09155670410.

Together, let us join hands in standing up against hunger and food insecurity in the country.

UNEMPLOYMENT RESOLUTION: Record-high epic failure of Duterte against the Filipino working class

Even with or without the COVID-19 pandemic, employment crisis in the country existed and even gone worst under the 5 year presidency of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Facts will prove that the rate of unemployment in the country reached record-high mark during the Duterte presidency.

During pre-pandemic in 2019, unemployment rate hits a historic 4.7 million figure. It even got worse and reach 5.8 million by the end of 2020 and peaked at 27.3 million at the hype of the pandemic. Since 2016, unemployment figures doesn’t gone under the 4 million mark.

Analysts also pointed-out that unemployment rate under Duterte is the highest data in Philippine history since the World War II.

These data will prove that the present administration has no clear plan to massively generate regular and decent jobs for our labor force in its 5 years of existence. Contractual jobs became rampant and swolen under the Duterte administration.

On his last State of the Nation Address, the Filipino workers — especially those who lost their jobs due to the epic failure of Duterte to resolve unemployment in the country — will remain firm in making Duterte accountable to its continuing neglect to workers and challenging the administration to address the employment crisis in the country in the soonest possible time.

NEWS: “Duterte’s threat to ‘jail people who’ll refuse to be vaccinated,’ uncalled for,” says labor group

“Uncalled for, not helpful.” This is the reaction of the labor group, Defend Jobs Philippines today over the threat of President Rodrigo Duterte to “jail people who will refuse the COVID-19 vaccine” during his national public adddress on Monday.

The group said that while they encourage workers and people from getting the anti-COVID vaccines, “their right to information, have consent and choose their preferred brands of vaccines must be he upheld and ensured by the government.

Christian Lloyd Magsoy, spokesperson of Defend Jobs Philippines and initiator of the “ : Jabs and Jobs for All” campaign said, “If President Duterte is really serious in its massive vaccination roll-out project, then he must stop issuing statements that are irresponsible and will add up fear to this already trying times.”

He added, “Instead of spreading and sowing fear and terror on the issue of vaccination, President Duterte must use his voice in educating and informing the public on the importance, relevance and other relevant information why there is a strong need to be vaccinated.”

Defend Jobs Philippines also insisted the people’s freedom to choose the brand of vaccine that they prefer. Magsoy also urges the national government to listen to the people’s vaccine brand preference from the grassroots and provide them with enough supply of vaccine that they want.

“Achieving herd immunity will never be possible in a dictatorial type of leadership. We can resolve our health crisis brought by the pandemic through securing enough supply of preferred vaccine brands for all workers and people and by painstakingly educating the majority of our people on the importance of the vaccination program of the government in their workplaces and communities,” ended Magsoy.

ENTRY # 3: Free Our Unionists! Free All Political Prisoners!

There will be no genuine independence and freedom in our land, if our rights to express our sentiments, grievances and to self-organization were consistently and repeatedly violated. Under the present administration, trade unionists, labor union organizers, activists and critics of the anti-labor and anti-people policies were beingbred-tagged, arrested, detained and even killed.

Highlight of the violations and attacks of the Duterte government against the labor movement is the consistent scheme of arresting, filing of trumped up charges, planting of fake evidences and detention of trade union organizers including the Human Rights Day 7 — the six labor leaders and journalists arrested on December 10, 2020, among the long lists of political prisoners in the country.

We demand for the junking of all trumped-up charges filed against them and for their immediate release.