(Press Releases (with the Palm Oil Workers Coalition) 2018 Labor Day Commemmoration: Demanding Work for Oil Palm Workers)
On May 1 we commemorate the struggle of workers 132 years ago. Now, a century later, workers are still continuing the struggle, especially palm oil workers who in Indonesia produce the country’s “green gold.”
30 April 2018
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Slave like wages of sugar field workers push them out of the industry to seek higher paying jobs. This is what Department of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol and especially Negros Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., who is also a haciendero (landlord) failed to mention why there is a shortage of sugar field workers.
Read more here: https://umapilipinas.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/slave-like-wages-push-sugar-workers-out-of-the-industry/
The Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) and National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) condemn the terrorist listing by the Duterte regime on 600 persons including five members of Kaisahan-Batangas, among which is an officer of the NFSW. Kaisahan is a member of UMA.
Read more here: https://umapilipinas.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/agricultural-workers-condemn-terrorist-listing-of-its-officer-and-members/
President Duterte’s Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law is expected to exacerbate the crisis in the Philippine Sugar Industry.
This will surely lead to further impovershipment of sugar field and mill workers. A genuine agrarian reform program and national industrialization are the only remedies for the ailing industry and for ensuring the growth of the […]
Advancing food sovereignty and agroecology
Studies and experiences1 of small food producers worldwide have demonstrated that agroecology (including all forms of biodiverse, integrated and diversified farming approaches combined with local knowledge systems) have sustained and fed communities while coping with the changing climate. It is being practiced by millions of farmers on millions of hectares on […]
As working closely with farmers and farmworkers’ groups and human rights advocates in the Philippines, we are alarmed by what appears to be an escalation of the attacks against leaders of rural communities fighting for their land and rights.
Since the start of the year, unknown assailants have killed five people already for reasons that could […]
BACOLOD CITY – Hundreds of farmers and sugar workers marched the streets of Murcia, Negros Occidental to call for justice for slain peasant leader Alexander Ceballos, who was killed by suspected paramilitary elements last January 20.
Members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) […]
With the theme “Defend Food Sovereignty! Strengthen Community Resilience amid Climate Crisis,” the 16 days of global action on land and resources successfully reached out to more than 380,000 people across the globe, with more than 200 partners and network groups in 18 countries in Asia, Pacific, Africa and Latin America. (click here to see photos […]
As the world marks World Food Day today, we join the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in exposing the real situation facing farmers and other small food producers, especially in the poor countries, one that is characterized by worsening hunger and poverty and greater political repression that are figuratively and literally killing rural communities.
Indeed, it is […]
The Leaders of NPFPU whom met their monthly meeting on Tuesday have decided to launch unending campaign on Indian Trawler issue and to find ways to address issues faced by the fishing communities. While organizing campaign they expect to propose a development plan which the fishers drafted last few months coĺlectively.
Most interestingly, the fisher leaders […]