On May 1 every year, organized labor always rallies for the same demands: higher wages, security of tenure, lower prices, end of “endo-contractualization” or “5-5-5,” etc. HOWEVER, MY THOUGHTS THIS YEAR VEER TOWARD UNORGANIZED LABOR, mainly the self-employed, those belonging to the so-called “gig” economy like musicians, dance instructors, singers, ballet dancers, and others similarly…
Last Monday’s column (see “Let us celebrate Women Suffrage Day,” 4/21/2025) elicited a lot of responses saying I should not limit myself only to those directly responsible for the grant of suffrage to Filipino women but should hail others who excelled in many private endeavors, achieving equality if not superiority with the other gender. Let’s…
I thank top election lawyer Romulo B. Macalintal for reminding me that the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. proclaimed April 30 of every year as Woman Suffrage Day through Presidential Decree No. 2346 dated March 29, 1984. HISTORICALLY, SINCE THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE WAS GRANTED IN 1907 by the American colonizers, only male citizens…
The Supreme Court has required the Senate and the House of Representatives to comment—within a non-extendible period of 10 days from notice—on the petition of 1Sambayan coalition to compel Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law. It also consolidated the petition with the earlier ones filed by the Kapatiran party and by Wilfredo Trinidad. TO…
Former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his wife Imelda, et al., won Civil Case No. 0033 (later subdivided into eight complaints denominated as Civil Cases 0033-A, 0033-B, 0033-C, 0033-D, 0033-E, 0033-F, 0033-G, and 0033-H) involving the coconut levy funds and the companies in which the funds were invested at, including San Miguel Corp. (SMC), United…