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Briefly OFW repatriation AN overseas Filipino worker from Impasug-ong town in Bukidnon province has requested repatriation from war-torn Sudan. Overseas Workers Welfare AdministrationNorthern Mindanao (Region 10) Director Harry Borres confirmed that there is one OFW from Bukidnon awaiting evacuation from Sudan. Borres did identify the OFW. He assured assistance to the OFW but said they are still "waiting for the fund and a copy of the guidelines" from the OWWA central office regarding financial aid for the Bukidnon OFW’s family.
Warning versus disposed cigars ZAMBOANGA City – The Bureau of Customs (BOC)Port of Zamboanga warned the public against buying cigarettes destroyed and disposed of by the agency. Mike Lanza, Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service chief of BOCZamboanga, said Saturday that they spray the confiscated smuggled cigarettes with pesticides. BOC-Zamboanga led the destruction at a sanitary landfill in Barangay Salaan here on Friday.
Lower banana export PRODUCTION of Cavendish bananas, the main export variety, remains threatened by Fusarium wilt or Panama disease, likely dampening exports, according to the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA). “ For the first three months, our production was even worse than last year. We’re kind of worried that maybe at the end of this year, we might not be able to contribute even $1 billion,” PBGEA Executive Director Stephen A. Antig said. Citing the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the total land area planted to banana was 442,894 hectares last year, with 84,328 hectares dedicated to Cavendish, which is cultivated in large plantations for efficiency.
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LABOR group in Northern Mindanao plans to file another wage increase petition as last year’s was not "sufficient to give the workers a life of dignity" due to inflation. The Associated Labor Un i o n s - Tr a d e Un i o n Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) Region-10 said on Labor Day that a second wage increase petition is part of its immediate plans and it is now studying the move by gathering data and facts. They clarified they are thankful for the P40 wage increase last year. “We are not asking for too much; it’s just for something that is sufficient to give a person sufficient sustenance RICE FARMERS. A farmer sprays fertilizer on his rice crops in Banaybanay, Davao Oriental on in terms of their salary," Monday (1 May 2023). Farmers are still facing soaring prices of farm inputs and the possibility of lawyer Doris Javier, ALUbelow normal rainfall as the dry spell brought by El Niño is expected to begin in the next two to TUCP Northern Mindanao NORMIN/PAGE 7 three months. (MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO)
Militant workers stopped Progressive groups hit from entering CDO By FROILAN GALLARDO MindaNews
POLICE stopped a convoy of militant workers from entering the city to mark the International Labor day celebration on Monday, May 1. Lt. Col. Evan Viñas, spokesperson of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office said armed policemen from their City Mobile Force stopped around 70 members of the militant Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) at the outskirts of Barangay Bugo, this city on Monday morning. Viñas said the policemen asked the workers, who were riding motorcycles and other vehicles, to alight and present their identification cards and barangay clearances. “After they were all checked DAVAO City them — Former out, we allowed to enter Sarangani Governor Miguel the city more than an hour Rene Dominguez later,” Alcantara he told MindaNews by phone. has joined the 60-year-old He said the orderand to Alsons Development monitor the movement of Investment Corporation militant workers nationwide (Alsons Dev) as its new to secure highways parks director who willand oversee where they were expected to the business strategy and hold rallies came from the operations of the premier Philippine Nationaland Police property developer real headquarters in Camp Crame. estate pioneer in Davao City. K M U Dev s piso the k e sreal p e restate son Alsons Teresita Hadman said the
police allowed them to enter Cagayan de Oro at 10am Monday after holding them for three hours under the scorching heat. “The police stopped our convoy around 6 a.m. and we endured more than four hours under the sun,” Hadman told DXIF Bombo Radyo. The labor leader said the KMU workers only wanted to parade around the city in their vehicles, not to hold a rally. She said they also planned to go to the regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment on Corrales Street to meet with the agency officials and air their grievances. Lawyer Beverly Musni of the Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) slammed the police for holding the workers and demanding for their identification cards. “The police officer who led the blocking of the convoy covered his name cloth to hide his identity. Yet, he demanded knowing the identities of the workers,” Musni said. She said the workers have every right to be on the streets on Labor day to celebrate and police officers should be aware of that.
‘worsening economic crisis’ By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV MindaNews
DAVAO City – Members of various progressive groups in Davao City staged a Labor Day protest to air their sentiments over the “worsening economic crisis” under President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and
to call for an increase in the daily minimum daily wage. Paul John Dizon, secretary general of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)-Southern Mindanao, said in a statement that the Marcos administration does not have clear solutions to address the most pressing problems concerning labor.
The groups cited the soaring inflation, low income, and insufficient jobs for Filipino workers. Dizon said around 400 members of BayanSouthern Mindanao Region (Bayan-SMR), KMU-SMR, Anakbayan-SMR, Gabriela CRISIS/PAGE 7
MORE WAGE HIKE. Progressive groups call for wage hike in a rally Monday, 1 May 2023, in Davao City. MindaNews photo by ANTONIO L. COLINA IV
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