PM members from Metro Manila and
Calabarzon are joining a multisectoral mobilization from various militant
groups. They will assemble at 1:00 pm along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and
then march towards Batasang Pambansa.
“Ikulong ang mga tulak ng endo at
contractualization lords. Buhayin wag patayin ang human rights. Ito ang
panawagan ng mga manggagawa,” urged Rene Magtubo, PM chair.
PM is also leading a mobilization of
workers and poor in Cebu today to urge the administration to deliver on its
campaign promise of ending contractualization. At the same time, PM in Cebu is calling
for a stop to the wave of extra-judicial killings. Yesterday, the spouse of one
PM-Cebu leader was killed by police.
“Every Filipino deserves their day in
court. Instead hundreds of poor people are being massacred in the course of the
war on drugs,” declared Dennis Derige, PM-Cebu spokesperson.
“Contractualization, just like drugs, destroys
lives, wreaks families and ruins the future of the youth. How can a decent life
for a family be sustained when breadwinners are endos who are paid poverty
wages without benefits and who lose their jobs after five months? We would like
to see big time pushers of contractualization, among whom are the richest
capitalists, be penalized as criminals,” exclaimed Magtubo.
Last July 1, PM and other labor and church
groups held a rally at the Department of Labor and Employment and presented a 10-point
proposal to end endo in a bid to engage the new administration on the
contractualization issue.
The group’s SONA mobilization today is part
of its anti-endo contractualization. PM vowed to escalate the campaign against
endo and win pending labor dispute such as the outsourcing row at Philippine
Airlines.
July 25, 2016
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