Unfair Labor Practice in the Philippines
The Unfair Labor Practices in Media “Service for the people”, these words are usually being carried along by most television networks. A service that unlocks the awareness to the ill-governed and anomalies of the government, the window that shows how people live in sorrows and the juggler who entertains the people to relive the stress they’ve had in a day of hassle. Everything should’ve been in good place if only the people who are of big contribution to the success of the service were granted by something due to these works of them. As I was reading through the posts of buhaymedia.wordpress.com, I realized how blind I was to the real world of the television networks. Of course, I could only see good about it because I was also fed only by good things about it. The journalists composed the media which is the watchdog or the fourth state and it’s their dedication and responsibility to bring forth and defend the rights of the masses and when we say masses it means the whole. But it seems that only a part of the whole is covered by it, according to the ex-GMA talent and a member of the Talents Association of GMA Network Inc. (TAG) Mike Manalaysay, “Kung kami mga journalist, pinagtatanggol namin ‘yung mga karapatan ng ibang tao, edi mas dapat din naming ipagtanggol ‘yung mga karapatan namin (Dangla, 2014). In the Philstar Cebu Online News of May 17, 2014, the petition filed by the former talents of GMA Network’s Cebu station for certiorari was denied by the Special Eighteenth Division of the Court of Appeals (CA). It was filed against the network on November 7, 2005 for the unfair labor practice, illegal suspension, illegal dismissal and non-payment of labor benefits before the National Labor Relations Commission. But then, according to the NLRC and the Labor Arbiter, nothing exists such employer-employee relationship between GMA and the petitioners in the decision by Associate Justice Renato Francisco. CA said, “GMA is constrained by mandate of law to exercise
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