BY staff | Philippines | 1/17/21
The militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Workers Movement) condemned the harassment, threats and intimidation towards known labor leaders in Cebu, January 18.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Labor Commission | United States | 12/22/20
We strongly condemn the repression that has been unleashed against leading trade unionists in the Philippines and stand in solidarity with the militant labor federation Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) / May First Movement.
BY Council of Global Unions | Philippines | 12/12/20
Fight Back News Service is circulating this December 11 joint statement from the Council of Global
Unions Philippine affiliates.
BY Fight Back! Editors | Philippines | 5/08/20
The U.S.-backed regime of Philippines President Duterte has launched a wave of repression against the militant and powerful trade union grouping, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)/May First Movement.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 11/06/19
Freedom Road Socialist Organization stands in opposition to the wave of political repression that is being unleashed in the Philippines.
BY staff | United States | 5/22/19
Fight Back! Interviewed Ed Cubelo, the chairman of the Kilusang Mayo Uno, or May 1st Movement in Metro Manila, while he was in the U.S. on a speaking tour. The KMU is one the largest trade union federations in the Philippines.
BY staff | Milwaukee, WI | 5/02/19
The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council welcomed Raymond "Mong" Palatino from Bayan, an alliance of progressive organizations in the Philippines, and Ed Cubelo from the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) or May First Labor Movement, to Milwaukee for a very successful International Workers' Day event at the Milwaukee Area Labor Council on April 30.
BY staff | Chicago, IL | 5/02/19
Ed Cubelo - the president of Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association and chairman of the Metro Manila chapter of the major trade union federation in the Philippines, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) or 'May First Labor Movement' - visited the grave of the Haymarket martyrs, May 1.
BY staff | Boston, MA | 4/28/19
Workers and students packed into the office of Boston’s Chinese Progressive Association on April 27 to hear labor activists from the Philippines speak about the state of working-class struggle in their country.
BY staff | New York, NY | 4/14/19
Forty activists gathered on Friday, April 12, at The People’s Forum in New York City for an event on the Philippines labor movement hosted by BAYAN USA and Mission to End Modern Day Slavery.
