Media Workers Welfare
In defense of journalism and media workers’ rights
(Speech at the National Forum of the Philippine Press Institute, held at the New World Hotel, Makati City, June 13, 2013) I was given 10 minutes for this presentation and I thought long and hard on how I can make a hall of mostly publishers and editors listen to how reporters and other people working [...]
NUJP deplores Davao PNP’s assault on Inquirer correspondent
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemn the assault on Karlos Manlupig, photojournalist and Philippine Inquirer correspondent, by Davao City police who had dispersed victims of typhoon “Pablo” who had stormed the office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development to seize relief goods they said had been withheld from them. But [...]
LABOR UPDATE: RMN Manila employees to go on strike after failed mediation
Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Manila Employees Union (RMN-MEU) will go on strike beginning Thursday, May 17, following management’s refusal to grant their demands for the reinstatement of three illegally dismissed union officers and two members on floating status, and the payment of the legally mandated overtime and night differentials of 42 anchors, reporters [...]
LABOR UPDATE: RMN Manila employees mount strike over union-busting
FORTY-TWO ANCHORS, reporters and production employees of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Manila are up in arms against the management of DZxl radio station after three of their union officers were dismissed in an apparent effort to break up the union. Early this year, the RMN management terminated RMN Manila Employees Union (RMN-MEU) president Michael [...]
LABOR UPDATE/STATEMENT: Davao Broadcaster Dodong Solis won illegal dismissal case vs RMN
DAVAO CITY —The National Labor Relations Commission Regional Arbitration Branch XI (NLRC XI) has decided in favor of dismissed Radio Mindanao Network DXDC-Davao (RMN-DXDC Davao) station manager Mario Maximo “Dodong” Solis. The NLRC order signed by Labor Arbiter Elmer Ben Pasion ruled that the dismissal of Solis by his employer RMN, Inc., on September 6, [...]
