The President provided long-overdue benefits for the workers but these are just make-over, ?band-aid? solutions to allay workers? discontent about this administration?s performance to address the worsening jobs crisis.

The proliferation of part-time jobs and higher unemployment undermine the power of workers to bargain for higher wages and demand for security of tenure. Contractual workers are not allowed to join the union. So, Mrs. Arroyo?s appeal to employers to reach a middle ground with workers in granting a wage hike is a hoax.

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

We will hold the traditional Labor Day march and any untoward violence will not come from the workers? line.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

It's two outs, bottom of the ninth -- he's gotta come through. He has to come up with something definite and substantial. Anything less than that will be taken as a negative by the market.