The struggle of PAL workers

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Strikers: No retreat until PAL surrenders
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 July 1998. Unless PAL changes its position and recalls the retrenched workers, we will not stop the strike. So warned Alex Barrientos, president of the 8,000-member ground crew union which yesterday went on strike.
PAL, strikers close to agreement
By Deogracias E. Ramos and Lynda T. Jumilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 July 1998. The management of Philippine Airlines yesterday appeared close to ending a four-day-old strike by its ground staff personnel following discussions of a voluntary retirement scheme that would be made available to PAL employees.
The price of staying aloft
By Sylvia L. Mayuga, Philippine Daily Inquirer, OpEd page, 14 June 1999. The Philippine Airlines labor force of July '99, for one, is a pale shadow of its former self. Last year's strike slogans are only a bitter memory in a disbanded pilots' union. Palea president Alex Barrientos has been this year's chief endorser of surrendering labor rights, this time to new investors, in exchange for keeping their jobs.