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[Title] => 'A B2B issue': Industry's darker side goes unmentioned at Milan Fashion Week
[Summary] => With the glamorous catwalks, celebrities and excess of finery on display, the possibility of the recent investigations uncovering labor abuses being on anyone's mind appeared slim.
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[Title] => Workers hope SONA includes freedom of association, job security
[Summary] => The groups held a joint press conference on Wednesday to lay down workers' demands as Marcos prepares to speak before a joint session of Congress to report on government programs and to set the administration's legislative agenda.
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[Title] => Metro Manila wage hike starts July 16 while labor groups' appeal is pending
[Summary] => The increase — to P610 a day from P570 for non-agricultural workers and to P573 from P533 for agricultural workers — has been acknowledged as a small victory for minimum wage earners who have been struggling to make ends.
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[Title] => DOLE: Collective bargaining 'best, most efficient' way to raise wages
[Summary] => "We believe that the bipartite mechanisms are still the best and most efficient way of increasing wages above the minimum wage levels," Labor Undersecretary Benedicto Bitonio Jr. said.
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[Title] => Union at nutrition giant secures reinstatement, higher separation pay
[Summary] => Wyeth Nutrition and its workers' union went into negotiations through the regional National Conciliation and Mediation Board of the Department of Labor and Employment in May.
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[Title] => DOLE mediation continues on surprise layoffs at Wyeth Nutrition
[Summary] => Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said that meetings at the regional National Conciliation and Mediation Board office in Laguna started Tuesday and will resume Thursday.
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[Title] => Union at nutrition giant's milk factory readies strike over surprise layoffs
[Summary] => Faigmani said that the union believes the retrenchment of its members is also a tactic to weaken the union "and at the same time take away the wages and benefits that Wyeth are getting now."
[DatePublished] => 2023-05-19 14:12:00
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[AuthorName] => Jonathan de Santos
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[Title] => 'Why Naman?': The minimum wage has remained low since attacks on unions in the 2000s
[Summary] => "That should have been the role of government, to advocate for workers," IBON Foundation's Sonny Africa says. "But the government sides with employers. If employers say that they cannot afford to raise wages, the government just agrees."
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[Title] => Workers remind Marcos: Quality, better-paying jobs needed back home
[Summary] => In his pre-departure speech on Sunday, he said he will be in the US in hopes of "greater economic engagement" with its major trade partner.
[DatePublished] => 2023-05-01 13:31:00
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[AuthorName] => Kaycee Valmonte
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[Title] => Estrada: Wage increase must balance needs of workers, employers
[Summary] => Estrada said that he is worried that legislating a P150 wage hike, as proposed by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, may lead to business closures and even economic collapse.
[DatePublished] => 2023-04-28 18:26:00
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[AuthorName] => Xave Gregorio
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[Title] => Metro Manila wage hike starts July 16 while labor groups' appeal is pending
[Summary] => The increase — to P610 a day from P570 for non-agricultural workers and to P573 from P533 for agricultural workers — has been acknowledged as a small victory for minimum wage earners who have been struggling to make ends.
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[Title] => DOLE: Collective bargaining 'best, most efficient' way to raise wages
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[Title] => Union at nutrition giant secures reinstatement, higher separation pay
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[Title] => DOLE mediation continues on surprise layoffs at Wyeth Nutrition
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[Title] => Union at nutrition giant's milk factory readies strike over surprise layoffs
[Summary] => Faigmani said that the union believes the retrenchment of its members is also a tactic to weaken the union "and at the same time take away the wages and benefits that Wyeth are getting now."
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[Title] => 'Why Naman?': The minimum wage has remained low since attacks on unions in the 2000s
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[Title] => Workers remind Marcos: Quality, better-paying jobs needed back home
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[Title] => Estrada: Wage increase must balance needs of workers, employers
[Summary] => Estrada said that he is worried that legislating a P150 wage hike, as proposed by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, may lead to business closures and even economic collapse.
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[AuthorName] => Xave Gregorio
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