NAGKAISA!
PRESS RELEASE
30
January 2013
With
barely 4 session-days left, workers belonging to labor coalition Nagakaisa! trooped
to the Senate this afternoon to urge feuding senators to defer passage of
Senate Bill 3389 or the National Electrification Reform Bill authored by Sen.
Serge Osmena on grounds that the proposed “step-in rights” to be granted to NEA
is anti-democratic and anti-labor.
Nagkaisa!
members like the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), Partido ng Manggagawa
(PM) and the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines have organized unions in
the country’s 119 electric cooperatives.
Josua
Mata, one of Nagkaisa! convenors and the secretary general of APL denounced the
Senate Bill as a Draconian measure as it grants NEA martial law powers to take
over ailing ECs, replace the general manager, the entire board and even
employees, appoint third persons in the board or a management team, and convert
cooperatives into stock corporations.
This
measure, he said, usurped the powers of the General Assembly – the highest
policy-making body of the coop to decide on what options to take to make their
utilities financially-viable and democratically-managed.
Louie
Corral of TUCP said a close reading of the measure shows that it seeks to
clothe the NEA with the same draconian powers, which for the past thirty years it
has exercised over the country’s electric cooperatives.
Section
4-B of SB 3389 states that the NEA shall have immediately step-in and take over
from its Board the operations of any ailing electric cooperative, within a
reasonable period after take-over, the NEA may convert the ailing cooperative
to either a stock cooperative registered with the CDA or a stock corporation
registered with the SEC.
“This is privatization in the
guise of reform,”
said Mata, adding that with 90 percent of generation already privatized under
EPIRA, big private powers now set their eyes on 9 million households connected
with electric cooperatives. Meralco has
5.5 million customer-base.
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PM chair Renato Magtubo echoed the
same as the both the House and Senate versions aim at making electric
cooperatives EPIRA-compliant. “Reform
NEA is nothing but a privatization agenda of Osmena in the coops as
explicitly provided under his bill,” said Magtubo.
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