DAVAO CITY, April 30 (PIA) A total of 5,000
workers under the banner of Nagkaisa, a coalition of moderate labor groups will
gather at the People’s Park at Roxas Avenue to dramatize their plea in time for
the commemoration of the Labor Day on May 1.
Michael Ybanez, spokesperson of Nagkaisa said
efforts of the government to address the issues of unemployment need
improvement.
He said the issues like unemployment and
underemployment remain unchanged because of the prevalence of cheap labor
policy, regulations allowing rampant contractualization, labor repression
through hiring and firing policy and the preference of government to foreign
investments and public-private partnership.
Ybanez said that the cheap labor policy favors
more the capitalists than the workers since the former rake more profit than
the laborers who solely rely on their wages.
He stressed that the real value of the minimum
wage in Davao Region at P317 is only P214.19, while a family of five needs more
than a thousand peso-living wage a day to enjoy a decent life.
“It is sad that the government never addressed
our plight effectively for the past five years,” Ybanez said.
He urged the government to certify as urgent
the bills assuring the Security of Tenure, living wage, universal health system
and the passage of a better Bangsamoro Basic Law.
Ybanez said they will dramatize these concerns
by marching from the Freedom Park towards the city thoroughfare and back to
show that the workers are aware of the issues besetting their plight. (PIA
11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
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