Archive for November 2nd, 2011

Tragedy of a union

Posted on November 2, 2011. Filed under: Aviation, Blogroll, Philippine Air Lines, Transportation, Unionism | Tags: Alvin, Macalalad, labor union, Philippine, Air, Lines, PAL, PAL Employees Association (PALEA), injured, protest camp, attacked, goons, Pasay City, victim, worker's welfare, employees, employers, Partido, Manggagawa, PM, Kilusang Mayo Uno, KMU breakaway, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino, BMP, Sanlakas, sectoral, party, FASAP, Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines, government agency, PALEA recruitment, malcontent, dissatisfaction, unionized, labor disputes, Communist Party of the Philippines, closed down factories, dead factories Province of Laguna, breakdown of industrial relations, industrial peace, Calabarzon Region, Company, executives assassinated, New People’s Army, courts, negotiations, arbitration, proceedings, National Labor Relations Council, Fr. Berlin Guerrero, Ka Popoy Lagman, Lenin, Workers' Vanguard, real vanguards, scoundrels, pragmatic, labor federation, labor leadership, sacrificial lamb, millions reasons, incentives, CBA, Freedom Village, Quezon City, Justice Kalaw Estate, Ms. Yolanda Ricaforte, accounting, jueteng collections, illegal activities, criminal, sacks of money, money from crime, protector President of the Republic of the Philippines, currency specialists, cash, swallowed, churned, digested, salve, solution |

A few days ago, a bystander by the name of Alvin Macalalad died and eight members of the labor union inside Philippine Air Lines (PAL) – the PAL Employees Association (PALEA) claimed to be injured when their protest camp site was attacked by at least fifty (50) men in Pasay City in the midmorning of [...]