ALU-TUCP not
allowed at bus firm
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

Officers of the Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines in Cebu were sent out of the terminal compound of a big transport company in Negros Island, when the management discovered that they were convincing employees to unionize with them and using private property without permission.

The group, headed by Jose Albeso and Danilo Ipil, discreetly entered the Vallacar Transit Inc. terminal in Barangay Calindagan, Dumaguete City and were accosted by security personnel on orders of the manager, Juvy Granada, who refused to be interviewed.

Albeso came to avail of the socalled “freedom period,” provided under the Labor Code.

Pocket forest
establishment lauded
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources lauded efforts of the Negros Oriental provincial government to establish pocket forests in the province and address the dwindling forest cover to mitigate climate change.

Negros Oriental’s forest cover is now only 28,000 hectares, with the bigger volume in Mt. Talinis , and the rest in Manjuyod, Bindoy, Guihulngan and Tayasan areas.

The existing forest cover is five percent of the entire land area of the province, Community and Natural Resources Officer, Charlie Fabre, said.  The aim is to reach between 20 to 25 percent forest cover in Negros Oriental.

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