Betrayed

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February 10, 2018
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(We yield this space to the joint statement of the Federation of Free Workers and Kilusang Mayo Uno due to it s timeliness. – Ed.)

THE LABOR sector is utterly dismayed that President Rodrigo Duterte has yet again failed to fulfill his promise and heed Filipino workers’ demand to end all forms of contractualization.

During (the Feb. 8, 2018) labor dialogue in Malacañang, the President once again refused to sign our draft Executive Order prohibiting all forms of contractualization and asked for until March 15 to study the EO. This is amidst the fact that our draft EO has been submitted to Malacañang, upon his request, since May of 2017 after the Labor Day dialogue in Davao. Also, there have already been prior agreements with Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary Silvestre Bello III that the EO would be signed (during the Feb. 8, 2018) Malacañang dialogue.

We are disappointed the President has been dilly dallying on signing the EO while we have promptly and faithfully cooperated with the process. His promise last Labor Day was to prepare a draft, we have prepared a draft.

We also engaged in several dialogues with the DOLE to finalize the EO. It is frustrating that we have been made to wait this long only to be rejected.  We feel betrayed and made to believe that (Feb. 8, 2018) was a big bonus day for workers especially the majority of workers in the Philippines for are contractuals. We expected to get an E.O. What we got instead is a zero.

The labor sector vows to continue strengthening its unity to advance the demands of Filipino workers for regular and decent jobs. We vow to hold bigger protests to put pressure on the President to sign our EO and to fulfill his promise of ending all forms of contractualization.
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