CWS issued the call saddened by the miserable situation of workers in the country.
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In a statement, the group particularly lamented how President Duterte’s campaign promise to end the practice of “contractualization” or “endo” and to improve labor conditions for all have not been fulfilled.
It said President Duterte also promised free land distribution, but since taking office in 2016, “not only has he failed to implement a genuine land reform program, he has also cracked down on those who dared to fight for it.”
The group also scored the killings of industrial workers, farm workers and fisherfolks as well as the labor rights violations.
Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, chairperson of Church People-Workers Solidarity. (Photo from the Diocese of San Carlos/CBCP News)
Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, chairperson of the Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS), laments the government’s failure to protect the rights of millions of workers, the CBCP News reported.
“Government apathy and inefficiency has failed to protect workers’ safety and health,” CBCP News quoted Alminaza.
“In the guise of ‘reviving the economy’, workers’ safety and lives are put in jeopardy.”
He said record high unemployment rate, rising inflation and lack of income continued to infest the country’s workers.
The San Carlos bishop urged the government to give in to the proposed P100 daily wage subsidy being pushed by labor organizations to augment the workers’ measly income.