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Haciendero gov’t allots billions for sugar barons, zero for starving workers
Agricultural workers under the national federation Unyon ng mga Mangggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) slammed President BS Aquino’s alter-egos at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) for dangling billions of pesos in public funds to finance sugar block farms, a new devious scheme favoring business interests […]
#NoLandNoLife | Filipino farm workers hit deception, human rights atrocities and land grabbing
MANILA, Philippines – As the country awaits the last State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Benigno S. Aquino III set next week, the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Union of Agricultural Workers or UMA) held its own “state of farmworkers report” in a public forum dubbed as “State of (Hacienda) Luisita” held last […]
Agricultural workers get slave-like wages, federation says
The national federation of agricultural workers fears that sugar workers would be paid even less this crop year as the tariff for imported sugar would go down to just five percent because of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Agricultural workers remain the poorest of the rural poor, according to the national […]
Lupa at Hustisya (Land and Justice): Hacienda Luisita
A new video (in Filipino) by the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), Tudla and the Luisita Watch network narrates the saga of farmworkers and reports on the current state of land reform and human rights in Hacienda Luisita.
A brief report on the implementation of government-mandated land distribution in the historic and highly-controversial Hacienda […]