NAGKAISA
A better policy is possible
A win-win solution to endo
is unacceptable
The only
chance for Filipino workers to enjoy a life of dignity is to have secure and
good paying jobs. Contractualization is
spoiling this dream. And the government
is unacceptably prolonging the misery.
By raising the
bogey of massive job loss once the government accedes to workers’ demand for an
end to all forms of contractualization, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI),
was in effect forcing the workers to accept its win-win formula that allows,
rather than prohibit, the perpetuation of different forms of
contractualization.
The DTI
proposal is unacceptable on two grounds.
First, the end endo promise, the way it was presented by the President
during the election campaign, did not mean the end of one form of
contractualization and the legalization of another type. Second, legalizing sub-contracting and
outsourcing work arrangement is a ploy to shield employers from assuming their
inherent responsibility of providing direct and regular employment to their
workers. Regularization done in
contractor agencies rather than in mother companies is a fraud.
We don’t want
to assume that the DTI wish is the President’s command. But why is the
President’s command now marching towards a different direction?
Saan kami ngayon
kukuha ng kapal ng kumpyansa kung wala na sa mukha ng gubyerno ang
kaseryosohang ganap na itigil ang endo? Kung ang DTI at DOLE ay parehong win-win
na ang tono?
Analogous to
the time of Gat Andres Bonifacio, the epidemic of contractualization diminishes
the plight of Filipino workers to a life of colonial subjects unable to
exercise their freedom because none of their masters today would want to recognize
their sovereign existence as regular employees.
Hindi
pinangarap ni Gat Andres Bonifacio ang ganitong buhay para sa mga
Pilipino. Filipinos did not wage a
revolution against colonial exploitation only to be subjected to another form
of oppression.
Kung gayon ay
dapat mabatid: Kung ayaw tapusin ng gubyerno ang endo, hindi rin tatapusin ng
uring manggagawa ang kanyang rebolusyon.
November 30, 2016
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