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Noynoy hies off to Tarlac on Labor Day
- Written by Tribune
- Thursday, 02 May 2013 00:00
Labor
groups were busy protesting on their day, but President Aquino
conveniently hied himself off to Tarlac, with the Palace claiming that
Aquino spent the morning of Labor Day to get some rest and for him to
recuperate from colds and his bout with coughing.
Aquino was said to have traveled to Tarlac City Tuesday afternoon, immediately after his dialog with labor group representatives in the Palace, to witness a job fair in the area.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said this rest day for Aquino is “an opportunity for him to rest. You know he is suffering from coughs and colds, He is taking medications for them,” adding that Aquino is is not trying to evade Labor Day protests in Manila.
“Yesterday, after the event, then later , he also had an event . He now has a chance to rest, So today is a good day for him to rest lang before his event at 4 o’clock,” he said.
The President will have an event with the local community in Victoria, Tarlac this (Wednesday) afternoon.
Lacierda also said the President spearheaded the Labor Day activities on Tuesday based on the advice by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and it was not the President’s decision for him to take a rest today.
The labor department wanted the Labor Day activities on April 30 so as not to crowd the labor groups’ activities for May 1, Lacierda said.
“But this was suggested, I think if I’m not mistaken, weeks ago or a month ago. You know how it is with the schedule of the President. Thats’ planned in advance,” he said.
Meanwhile, in celebration of the 127th International Workers’ Day and its 110th year in the Philippines, a militant labor group staged a nationwide protest condemning the rabidly anti-worker and pro-capitalist regime of Aquino.
Aquino has again rejected workers’ calls for a significant wage hike, the junking of contractual employment and a stop to trade-union repression. He has bragged about non-wage benefits and his government’s efforts at creating jobs.
“The Aquino regime has been using the technicality that is the one-year ban on hiking wages to try to obscure the fact that it is insensitive toward the long-standing hunger and poverty being experienced by the country’s workers,” an official statement said.
“We condemn Aquino’s use of non-wage benefits, which come from workers’ taxes and premium contributions, to try to cover up his strong opposition to a wage hike. Unlike a significant wage hike, non-wage benefits will not directly and immediately give workers any relief from the soaring prices of goods and services.”
“We condemn Aquino for taking advantage of chronic unemployment to try to blackmail workers into accepting starvation wages, contractual employment, and violations of trade-union rights. The truth is that wages in the country have been pressed down for too long yet jobs available to Filipinos remain dismally scarce.”
The problem lies in the government’s refusal to implement land reform and national industrialization and generate decent employment through these policies. It has instead relied on foreign investments to create jobs in the country, and has offered cheap and repressed labor to attract foreign investors into the country statement further.
On his third Labor Day and almost three years in office, Aquino has thoroughly exposed himself as anti-worker and pro-capitalist. His statements leading to this Labor Day are merely footnotes to his already long record of implementing policies that are favorable to capitalists, especially the big and foreign ones, and detrimental to workers.
For almost three years, Aquino has consistently rejected calls for a significant wage hike, is attempting to impose wage cuts and wage freezes through the Two-Tiered Wage System, has legalized contractual employment, and is continuing policies that are repressive of workers’ right to unionize, collectively bargain and strike.
Today, our protests against the anti-worker and pro-capitalist Aquino regime will ignite. We vow to launch bigger protests in the coming weeks and months in order to push forward our just demands for our wages, job security and trade-union rights statement ended.
With Pat C. Santos and PNA
Aquino was said to have traveled to Tarlac City Tuesday afternoon, immediately after his dialog with labor group representatives in the Palace, to witness a job fair in the area.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said this rest day for Aquino is “an opportunity for him to rest. You know he is suffering from coughs and colds, He is taking medications for them,” adding that Aquino is is not trying to evade Labor Day protests in Manila.
“Yesterday, after the event, then later , he also had an event . He now has a chance to rest, So today is a good day for him to rest lang before his event at 4 o’clock,” he said.
The President will have an event with the local community in Victoria, Tarlac this (Wednesday) afternoon.
Lacierda also said the President spearheaded the Labor Day activities on Tuesday based on the advice by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and it was not the President’s decision for him to take a rest today.
The labor department wanted the Labor Day activities on April 30 so as not to crowd the labor groups’ activities for May 1, Lacierda said.
“But this was suggested, I think if I’m not mistaken, weeks ago or a month ago. You know how it is with the schedule of the President. Thats’ planned in advance,” he said.
Meanwhile, in celebration of the 127th International Workers’ Day and its 110th year in the Philippines, a militant labor group staged a nationwide protest condemning the rabidly anti-worker and pro-capitalist regime of Aquino.
Aquino has again rejected workers’ calls for a significant wage hike, the junking of contractual employment and a stop to trade-union repression. He has bragged about non-wage benefits and his government’s efforts at creating jobs.
“The Aquino regime has been using the technicality that is the one-year ban on hiking wages to try to obscure the fact that it is insensitive toward the long-standing hunger and poverty being experienced by the country’s workers,” an official statement said.
“We condemn Aquino’s use of non-wage benefits, which come from workers’ taxes and premium contributions, to try to cover up his strong opposition to a wage hike. Unlike a significant wage hike, non-wage benefits will not directly and immediately give workers any relief from the soaring prices of goods and services.”
“We condemn Aquino for taking advantage of chronic unemployment to try to blackmail workers into accepting starvation wages, contractual employment, and violations of trade-union rights. The truth is that wages in the country have been pressed down for too long yet jobs available to Filipinos remain dismally scarce.”
The problem lies in the government’s refusal to implement land reform and national industrialization and generate decent employment through these policies. It has instead relied on foreign investments to create jobs in the country, and has offered cheap and repressed labor to attract foreign investors into the country statement further.
On his third Labor Day and almost three years in office, Aquino has thoroughly exposed himself as anti-worker and pro-capitalist. His statements leading to this Labor Day are merely footnotes to his already long record of implementing policies that are favorable to capitalists, especially the big and foreign ones, and detrimental to workers.
For almost three years, Aquino has consistently rejected calls for a significant wage hike, is attempting to impose wage cuts and wage freezes through the Two-Tiered Wage System, has legalized contractual employment, and is continuing policies that are repressive of workers’ right to unionize, collectively bargain and strike.
Today, our protests against the anti-worker and pro-capitalist Aquino regime will ignite. We vow to launch bigger protests in the coming weeks and months in order to push forward our just demands for our wages, job security and trade-union rights statement ended.
With Pat C. Santos and PNA
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Wow, mukhang iba ang mga pinagsasabi sa pinaggagawa.
Nasaan ang pinagsasabi at pinagyayabang nilang ito kung ganoon? Hanggang yabang lang ba ito?
Sabi nila, " No one is allowed to relax – not even President Aquino – as the homestretch of the campaign begins." Pagkatapos, sabi naman ni Lacierda, this rest day for Aquino is “an opportunity for him to rest." Alin ba talaga ang totoo sa mga pinagsasabi nila?
Punong puno talaga ng pagkukunwari, pagbabalatkayo at kaplastikan at saka kapalpakan.
Ito basahin niyo.
Noy, administration bets won’t relax until end of campaign
By Aurea Calica, The Philippine Star, May 1, 2013
MANILA, Philippines - No one is allowed to relax – not even President Aquino – as the homestretch of the campaign begins.
Team PNoy campaign strategists vowed to work harder to raise the ratings of their senatorial candidates who are at the bottom of the poll surveys, a team spokesman said.
The President told reporters after a dialogue with labor groups in Malacañang yesterday that he gave “marching orders” for all the administration candidates to give their best shot.
“I tell all candidates that nobody should relax at this point in time. I think I am leading also by example. We believe we are espousing a certain ideology. Regardless of my physical condition, I will endeavor to maximize delivering the message to our people,” he said.
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