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According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer (posted yesterday night), citing reports from the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Cebu and Davao teachers were told by their superiors to pay for the cash cards and wait for almost two months before they can get their honorarium. Per the PDI report, “The Department of Education (DepEd) said it made an arrangement with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) so that the teachers could get their election honoraria and allowances on time through their Landbank payroll accounts or through cash cards that would be mailed to ...

DepEd-COMELEC Memorandum of Agreement on the 2013 elections From the MOA (signed on April 10, 2013): x x x 1. The COMELEC will pay the following: 1.1. For public school teachers who will serve as chairmen or members of the BEI: 1.1.1. THREE THOUSAND PESOS (Php3,000.000) as honorarium for serving as BEI chairmen and members; 1.1.2. FIVE HUNDRED PESOS (Php500.00) – for the final testing and sealing; 1.1.3. FIVE HUNDRED PESOS (Php500.00) – one-time transportation allowance. 1.2. For public school teachers, principals, or supervisors who will serve as Supervisors for ten (10) clustered ...

Press Statement May 8, 2013   The Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Davao Region wishes to express its anger and dismay over the recent pronouncement of the Comelec election officer Atty. Aimee Perolino-Ampoloquio that public school teachers serving as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) are “forgetful” and “stupid” for having difficulties with the Automated Election System (AES).  This pronouncement is incredibly offensive to our teacher-BEIs and extremely unprofessional coming from a fellow government employee. Even if Atty. Ampoloquio was speaking of her own volition, we have yet to hear any disavowals or apologies from the Comelec ...

PRESS RELEASE 8 May 2013 Reference: ACT TEACHERS Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio (09209220817) ACT TEACHERS Party-List strongly condemns the statement of Davao City election officer Aimee Ampoloquio saying that teachers sitting as poll workers with failing PCOS machines during final testing or sealing (FTS) are “forgetful or stupid.” Media sources quoted Apolonio saying “It’s either they [the teachers] are forgetful or they are stupid.” “Her statement is irresponsible and illogical,” said ACT TEACHERS solon Antonio Tinio.  “Errors found in Davao and in other FTS centers nationwide are due to the PCOS machines themselves, not the ...

(Click here for the video of the interview.) With about 1,000 voters per BEI, longer travel, unresolved technical PCOS problems, heightened security risks, and other issues related to election service, teachers and DepEd employees deputized by the COMELEC for the 2013 polls demand: 1. honorarium higher than P4,000, which was reduced by P300 from the honorarium during 2010 elections, to compensate for the heavier workload due to precinct clustering and longer travel to their places of assignment; 2. more effective measures by the PNP and law enforcement agencies to ensure their physical security; 3. legal ...

PRESS RELEASE 30 April 2013 Reference: ACT TEACHERS Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio (09209220817) “Once again, President Aquino displayed his expertise in enraging workers on their special day,” said ACT TEACHERS Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio, on the Presidential announcement that workers cannot expect any wage hike on Labor Day. “The anti-labor character of this President, whose wage policies for both private and public sectors have dragged workers deeper into poverty, is getting clearer every day,” said the progressive legislator. Tinio slammed in particular Aquino’s planned imposition nationwide of CALABARZON’s Two-Tiered Wage System that would dump the ...

  Kamakailan lamang, itinanghal sa Wilfredo Guerrero Theater sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, Diliman ang dulang “Ang Tagak” ni Anton Chekhov na isinalin ng aking ama sa Filipino.  Isang dula na tumatalakay sa sa pakikipagtunggali ng mga pangunahing tauhan sa kani-kaniyang mga balakid na kinakaharap sa buhay.  Bagaman may hibla ng lungkot ang pagtatapos ng dula, pinasilip naman nito ang halaga ng paghawak sa pag-asa gaano man ito kailap. Naging ubod ng aral ang pagmamahal ng aking ama sa panitikan, at marahil isa ito sa mga dahilan kung bakit pinili kong magturo ...

PRESS RELEASE 7 April 2013 Reference: ACT TEACHERS Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio (09209220817) New SC ruling opens party-list system to rich and powerful -teachers’ solon “A supreme error at the expense of the poor and underrepresented.” ACT TEACHERS Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio slammed the Supreme Court (SC) which, in a decision issued on April 2 and published in its website yesterday, junked the requirements of representation and membership of party-lists and their nominees in marginalized sectors. “Representation and membership in a marginalized sector are set by the Constitution and law, and it is beyond the SC’s ...

Reposted from GMA News Online (http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/301275/news/nation/gsis-to-refund-p126m-to-deped-employees) GSIS to refund P126M to DepEd employees The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will refund a total of P126.47 million to more than 20,500 active and retired employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) beginning April. Covered by the refund — the second since January — are employees whose cash surrender value (amount paid to the policyholder upon separation from the service) or maturity benefit (benefit payable upon maturity of the endowment policy) were deducted premiums-in-arrears for July 1997 to December 2010. According to the state-run pension fund, ...