PRESS STATEMENT
Partido Manggagawa
SONA 2025
Ref: Renato Magtubo
Chairperson
The President’s candid admission of underperformance in the past three
years set a promising tone for a better second half of his term. However, that
hope was soon buried under a lengthy checklist of departmental
functions—routine matters expected of any administration.
What was glaringly absent were bold policy declarations addressing the
nation’s most urgent concerns: a substantial wage hike, an end to
contractualization, the creation of decent and secure jobs, and decisive action
to rein in inflation.
Workers keep on pressing for a
legislated wage hike of P200 as well as the passage of the security of tenure
bill, but to no avail. Katulad sa baha at bagyo, kailangan ang Presidente sa
pagharap sa krisis na ito.
The President also acknowledged energy and water supply issues but
failed to confront the root causes—particularly the long-standing failures of
privatization.
The SONA could have been more meaningful if it had tackled core policy
failures and laid out concrete reforms for the remaining three years. The
country doesn’t need a report card of government activities—it needs a clear
roadmap for change. ###
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