PRESIDENT STEPS IN TO SORT OUT PAL UNION BATTLE

President Benigno Aquino III has stepped in to sort out the PAL battle with employees. In an assumption order dated December 15, the President directed the airline and its labour union, the PAL Employees’ Association (PALEA), “to desist from undertaking any action that will aggravate the situation.” The PAL management was given 10 days after it received the order to file a comment on the President’s move to intervene in the labour dispute. The same order also directed PALEA to “desist” from proceeding with a planned strike. Aquino, however, did not specify in his order when he will decide on