If Filipinos are choosy, why do they still sneak into Iraq despite the violence there. Also, all the work that foreigners dislike, such as care-giving, are being taken by Filipinos.

While the government deprives workers of wage hikes, it condones the weekly oil price hikes imposed by the Big Three and new oil players. How can the government expect workers to cope with the high cost of petroleum and its domino effect on prices of other basic goods and services?

The coordinated actions on Thursday serve as unifying activities for our Labor Day schedules.

On Labor Day, the legislated wage hike would again be one of the major issues we will push. We've been asking for it for long a time. It's long overdue.

Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.

Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate