GABRIELA BATS FOR 120 DAYS MATERNITY LEAVE FOR WOMEN WORKERS

Gabriela Women’s Party filed today a bill extending the allowed maternity leave from the current period of 60 days for normal deliveries and 78 days for caesarean section deliveries to as much as 120 days, as recommended by the International Labor Organization Convention 183 on Maternity Protection.
Gabriela Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan, along with representatives from the [...]

REP. LUZ ILAGAN ON THE ISSUANCE OF ARREST WARRANTS VS BATASAN BLAST SUSPECTS

“While judicial processes must be respected, we in Gabriela Women’s Party remain doubtful of the investigation conducted by the Philippine National Police which is the basis of the warrants issued today.”
“Though this has long been ignored, our demand for an independent probe on the November 13 Batasan blast stays. Until then, justice for the victims [...]

JUDGE POSTPONES HEARING ON FABRICATED MURDER CASE VS MILITANT SOLONS; MAZA CONFIDENT OF CASE DISMISSAL FOR LACK OF MERIT

The hearing today on the motion for the judicial determination of probable cause filed by Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza, Reps. Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casino (Bayan Muna) and Rep. Rafael Mariano (Anakpawis) has been reset to May 12 by Judge Evelyn Turla of Branch 40, Palayan City Nueva Ecija RTC. This after the [...]

GABRIELA MAINTAINS FAILED CARP SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED

“There is no point in extending a bogus land reform program that has served to strengthen the hold of big landowners, agro-corporations and multinationals over vast tracts of land.”
Thus explained Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza, in voting “NO” to the proposed extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program which was approved at the [...]

NO TO PULL-OUT OF CHEAP NFA RICE, PRICE CONTROL NOW

Members of Gabriela Women’s Partylist today stormed the office of the National Food Authority(NFA) to denounce the pull-out of NFA rice priced at P18.25 from most of the 108 public markets in the National Capital Region. The P25 high variety rice from the United States was said to replace the cheaper NFA rice in the [...]

ARROYO CHALLENGED ON PRO-POOR MEASURES: TAX REPEAL, NOT TAX EXEMPTIONS

The militant women’s partylist group Gabriela today criticized as a mere spin, President Arroyo’s supposed bid to have pro-poor measures passed including a measure implementing tax exemption for minimum wage earners.
“This is but an attempt to appease growing restiveness as prices of oil, rice and basic commodities continue to rise. The truth is, a great [...]

CARP EXTENSION TO FURTHER RICE, FOOD CRISIS

As Congress sets to deliberate anew on proposals to extend the comprehensive agrarian reform program, representatives of the militant partylist group Gabriela today said extending the failed CARP will inevitably lead to a rice crisis of larger proportions and to further food insecurity in the coming years.
“A closer look at trends in agricultural production [...]

COMFORT WOMEN RESOLUTION RETURNED; COMMITTEE FEARED CAVING IN TO JAPAN INTERESTS

Women’s partylist group Gabriela today said the move of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs reverting House Resolution 124 to the committee level is a possible indication that the Japanese government has started meddling into deliberations on legislative measures pertaining to the comfort women.

“It is disappointing that the Philippine Congress appears to be [...]

AS MURDER, KIDNAPPING CASES ARE REVIVED, PERSECUTION IS GMA’S ANSWER TO CRISIS, UNREST

“The persecution of critics is a crisis management strategy of the Arroyo government. That fabricated cases of murder, kidnapping and rebellion are being revived against progressive partylist representatives in the midst of a worsening rice crisis, unemployment and urgent demands for wage hikes and price controls, show this governments determination to eliminate dissenting voices and [...]

MALACANANG SHOULD CERTIFY P125 LEGISLATED WAGE HIKE AS URGENT

Assistant Minority Floor Leader and Gabriela Partylist Rep. Liza Maza today said it would be best for Malacanang to certify as urgent, bills
that will implement a legislated wage increase for workers rather than to just allow the regional wage boards to decide on the wage hikes.
“Workers have long clamored for a P125 across the board [...]