Opascor workers call for strike, policy board intervenes

Pia Piquero 09/20/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) has scheduled a mediation conference on September 23, 2024, in response to escalating tensions at the Oriental Port and Allied Services Corporation (Opascor). This comes after…

Eiffel Tower operator says strike by staff has ended, site to reopen on Sunday

02/25/2024

PARIS (Reuters) – A strike by staff at the Eiffel Tower has ended, the company that runs one of the most visited tourist sites in the world said in a statement on Saturday. The tower will reopen…

Transport strike: Cebu City govt to deploy green buses to ferry passengers

Rashe Zoe Sophia Piquero 11/21/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City government is set to roll out green buses on November 22, as a response to the one-day transport strike of several Public Utility Jeepneys (PUJs) in Cebu. This is after…

Cebu transport groups against planned transport strike

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 03/03/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Members of the Federation of Cebu Transport Cooperatives (FCTC) and the Allied Transport Cooperatives and Corporations will not be supporting the planned transport strike next week of some groups in Metro Cebu. As…

PISTON-Cebu to hold picket rally, not a strike, in front LTFRB-7 office on Monday

Wenilyn Sabalo 03/02/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON)-Cebu is set to hold a picket rally in front of the office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central…

Jeepney operators strike back

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 03/02/2023

An estimated 40,000 traditional jeepneys and UV express vehicles in Metro Manila will join a weeklong strike next week, as a response to the mandates being enforced by the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program. The Land…

Starbucks U.S. workers at 100 stores hold one-day walkout

Reuters 11/17/2022

NEW YORK – Workers at more than 100 U.S. company-owned Starbucks locations are striking for one day on Thursday to protest what they say is illegal retaliation against their union organizing. The walkout comes on the one…

Jeepney drivers, operators asked: Defer strike this week as another oil price hike coming

Daphne Galvez - Reporter / @DYGalvezINQ 06/06/2022

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Monday appealed to public utility jeepney drivers and operators to postpone their strike this week as another round of fuel price increases is coming. Acting presidential spokesman Martin Andanar assured that the…

Multiple deaths reported as floods, landslide strike Jakarta

01/02/2020

JAKARTA — Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least three lives and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning inundated both residential and commercial areas across the…

Yanson Group workers file notice of strike

07/25/2019

BACOLOD CITY—The labor union of the largest bus company in the country has filed a notice of strike, claiming that the ongoing dispute among the owners affected the release of workers’ benefits and pay. The Philippine Agricultural,…

Central Visayas was strike-free during 1st quarter of 2019

Irene R. Sino Cruz 03/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–Not a single labor strike was reported in Central Visayas during the first quarter of 2019. National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) Director Edmund Mirasol made this statement during a press conference organized by the…

Woman, girl recount narrow escape from lightning strike

Benjie B. Talisic 11/16/2018

A woman and a female teenager were nearly struck by lightning during a thunderstorm in the late afternoon of Thursday, November 15, in Argao town in southern Cebu, about 68 kilometers from Cebu City. Janilyn Dunes, 35,…

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