Tonyo Cruz
For the past few weeks, Facebook has become a sea of black-and-white photos, plain black profile pics, eulogies and announcements of deaths of relatives and friends due to COVID-19. The pandemic has reached our inner circles, and can no longer be denied as a deadly threat to our lives and those of our loved ones.
For more than a year, we have lost many doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers led by valiant generals of what we ought to consider our real army in this war against the coronavirus. They were among the first to fall, in the initial surge of severe cases. Our country paid dearly for the questionable policies adopted by the national government or brought about by their criminal negligence and incompetence: we have lost many of our best and brightest medical and healthcare practitioners.
SunStar Labor: Wage hike in Western Visayas an upheaval battle
NEGROS. Leaders of various labor groups in Negros Occidental hold copies of the Labor Manifesto of Solidarity during the press conference at the Negros Press Club Building in Bacolod City in commemoration of the International Labor Day on Saturday, May 1, 2021. (Erwin P. Nicavera)
+ May 03, 2021 AS THEY marked the celebration of International Labor Day on May 1, local labor leaders have lamented that the call for wage increase for private sector workers in Western Visayas, including Negros Occidental, is an upheaval battle.
Labor representative to the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)-Western Visayas Wennie Sancho, during the press conference at the Negros Press Club Building in Bacolod City in commemoration of the International Labor Day on Saturday, May 1, said salary hike for minimum wage earners in the region remains dim.