Zachary Deneal Madriñan

Media company TV5 could be facing protests as talks between the company’s labor union about job security came to a standstill last month.The Associated Broadcasting Company Employees Union (ABCEU) has filled a strike notice with the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) after TV5 refused to negotiate towards creating a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) against job contractualization.The union is opposing a company policy that can declare certain regular positions as redundant, which could lead TV5 to lay-off employees and replaced by lower paid contractual or third-party-hired workers.In their CBA meeting last November 2019, TV5 insisted that it was not the venue for discussing the issue about the policy.“What we are asking to be included in the CBA, would be for management to first consult us before changing the name or position. While they were more than willing to talk about wage hike, what good would it be if on the next day you no longer have a job,” ABCEU said in a st...

  MANILA, Philippines - The new TV5 management and the employees’ union signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) bringing to a fruitful conclusion months of negotiations on their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The MOA represents earnest efforts on all parties to come up with an agreement that includes employees’ improved benefits — i.e., increased wages, more medical and hospitalization benefits, a rebuilding fund, etc. — and ensures the network’s future growth. According to TV5 and Cignal TV president and CEO Jane Basas, â€œWe are very happy that we can now move forward and continue a productive partnership with our employees. We are all in this as one company, one team. This is why we really need to work together for the common goal of helping TV5 become the game-changing network we all want it to be.” Present during the MOA contract-signing, among others, were new TV5 management panel chairperson Raul Velasco, management panel spokesperson Raul dela C...

  Kasabay ng intimate dinner ng entertainment press at TV5 executives na sina Jane J. Basas (TV5 at Cignal TV President and CEO), Perci Intalan (TV5 Entertainment chief) at Luchi Cruz-Valdes (News5 head) noong Miyerkules, December 18, 2019, ang mediation ng management ng istasyon at mga miyembro ng Associated Broadcasting Company Employees Union (ABCEU). Sa Annabel's restaurant sa Tomas Morato, Quezon City, ginanap ang intimate dinner ng press, kasama sina Wilma at Luchi. Sa opisina naman ng Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) sa Intramuros, Manila, ginanap ang pag-uusap sa pagitan ng TV5 management at ng ABCEU. Ito ay kasunod ng inihaing notice of strike ng ABCEU sa tanggapan ng DoLE noong Biyernes, December 13, 2019. Ayon naman kay Luchi, wala siyang alam sa mga nangyayari sa pagitan ng unyon at management. “Wala akong kinalaman dun, promise. I mean, I don’t know... I don’t know. “HR [Human Resources] is handling it. Management is handling it. "We’re ready naman for an...

  Kasalukuyang ginaganap ang mediation sa pagitan ng TV5 management at ng employees‘ union nito sa opisina ng Department of Labor and Employment. Ito ay may kaugnayan pa rin sa inihaing notice of strike ng unyon noong December 13, 2019, Biyernes. Maglalabas daw agad sila ng pahayag sa resulta ng kanilang pagpupulong.

  All’s well that ends well sa pagitan ng pamunuan ng TV5 at ng employees union (ABC Employees Union) ng nasabing TV network na nagkaroon ng maayos na dayalogo at pagkakasundo nung February 19, 2020 na ginanap mismo sa bagong tanggapan ng Kapatid Network sa Mandaluyong City kaya hindi na matutuloy ang bantang strike ng nasabing employees union. Base sa demand ng ABCEU, nagkasundo ang magkabilang panig sa P3,000 wage increase, P20,000 signing bonus, 14th month pay at rice incentive na nagkakahalaga ng P1,300 buwan-buwan. Bago ang dialogue between TV5 management at ng kanilang employees union, nag-extend ang TV network ng early retirement sa marami nilang empleyado at marami ang nag-avail dito.

  Mahigit sa 700 na empleyado ng TV5 ang nagbabalak magkaroon ng tigil-trabaho. Ito ay matapos ng deadlock sa usapin ng collective bargaining agreement (CBA) sa pagitan ng unyon ng mga empleyado at ng management ng istasyon noong nakaraang buwan. Ayon sa ulat ng  Manila Bulletin  noong Linggo, December 15, 2019 nag-file ng notice of strike ang Associated Broadcasting Company Employees Union (ABCEU) noong Biyernes, December 13, 2019 sa Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE). Ito ay dahil hindi raw umusad ang pag-uusap ng unyon at ng management tungkol sa "non-economic provisions" ng kanilang CBA, partikular na sa "job security." Sa CBA meeting ng unyon at management noong November 11, hindi nagkasundo ang dalawang kampo tungkol sa inihaing plano na baguhin ang pangalan ng ilang departamento at posisyon. Tingin ng management ay hindi akmang pag-usapan ang tungkol sa naturang plano noong pagpupulong ng araw na yun. Ngunit iginiit ng unyon na pag-usapan ang bagong pa...

Around 700 workers from a major television station is now threatening to hold a work stoppage after a deadlock marred its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiations last month. In a statement, the Associated Broadcasting Company Employees Union (ABCEU), a labor union of TV5, filed a notice of strike before the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) last Friday after its talks with its management on the non-economic provisions of its CBA bogged down, particularly on job security. This comes after TV5 management opposed the inclusion of its initiative to rename some of its department and positions saying the scheduled CBA meeting last November 11 is not the venue for such discussion. ABCEU, however, insisted on taking up the new policy since it claimed TV5 could use the provision to indiscriminately source out its manpower needs from third party service providers. “They will declare the previous positions within the said departments as redundant and ask them (workers holding t...