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Friday, November 11, 2005 (Philippines)
| A rally of a different sort is held not in the Macabalan port but in the Agora bus terminal where Super 5 bus workers gripe on low pay and non-benefits. (Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro/Joey Nacalaban) |
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SEVERAL workers from a provincial bus company Thursday staged a peaceful rally at the Agora Terminal saying the firm has so far failed to give them the benefits stipulated in their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) since 2001 and that it is into union busting among violations of the labor laws.
Mayor Vicente Emano said Thursday morning he was forced to recall the permit to rally he approved for the union after he received an order from Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) Secretary Patricia Sto. Thomas telling him to do so.
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Mindanao lawmakers alarmed over land division claims
AROUND 19 Mindanao administration congressmen expressed apprehensions over the reported partition of Mindanao island after the Government of the Republic of the Philippines-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (GRP-MILF) agreed to designate ancestral lands and homelands to be independently governed by the MILF under the term "BangsaMoro People".
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Autonomous region exec posts bail; cop chief blames nightspot
CAGAYAN de Oro City Police Director Aurelio Trampe Thursday blamed a public establishment's security for the incident last Wednesday evening in which a man pointed a gun and threatened to shoot Bukidnon Governor Jose Ma. Zubiri.
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Caraga meningo cases number three since '02
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