Save the Date| Feb 25, 2017

APL-Youth marks Int’l Youth Day by pushing for rights of fast food workers, reform in SK law

RESPECT FASTFOOD WORKERS RIGHTS! “Low PAY is NOT OKAY!” NCR CEBU DAVAO SK REFORM Isabatas, Isabatas! CELEBRATING the International Youth Day (IYD) today, a few hundred youth members of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL-SENTRO) staged flashmobs and pickets in several key cities across the country to highlight the plight of the mostly youthful fast […]

Filipino youths join int’l campaign for rights of fast food workers; ‘target’ McDo

YOUTH members of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL-SENTRO) held today a coordinated flashmob and pickets in front of several McDonald’s restaurants in the country as part of the global campaign for higher wages and rights of fast food workers and to celebrate at the same time the newly declared International Fast Food Workers’ Day. […]

Youths flashmob for ‘decent jobs for all’

MEMBERS of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)-Youth staged today simultaneous flashmob – dances and other “creative”protest actions– in four major cities in the country to mark the sixth World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) and to highlight the need to fight the widespread use and abuse of contractual jobs. In Manila, APL-Youth activists expressed […]

A new labor center formed, vows to strengthen industry and sectoral unionism

SENTRO or Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa was formally established when it held its founding congress last week, August 30-31. Representing at least 80,000 members in the private, public and informal sectors, including migrant workers, women and the youth, SENTRO is committed to take social movement unionism (SMU) to new heights by intensifying […]