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The workers love changes

Kilusang Mayo Uno — Cordillera

January 18, 2006

If there is something that needs change, it should be the corrupt government filled with voracious officials. The proposed charter change or cha-cha is one hell of an idea from a group of people who can’t do anything good, but advance their vested interests. All they shamelessly say is to make a good change in the Philippine politics and save the country’s economy.

The workers have long been shouting for adjustments on their wages to cope with the increasing prices of commodities; crying for humane working conditions; demanding for respect on their democratic and labor rights; campaigning against contractualization and labor flexibilization; and safeguarding their ranks on the wrath of lay-offs and retrenchments.

Did those power-hungry people take the Filipino workers’ situation in consideration? Certainly not in their dreams. The toiling workers together with the rest of the Filipino people are dead tired of hearing empty blah-blahs, much more the repression and oppression that are inflicted to them everyday in their lives.

Shifting to parliamentary system does not solve the problems of workers in finding ways how to feed their family because of their meager wage. A unicameral legislature is an additional insult to the workers. The law makers, who create and use oppressive labor laws, collaborating with big capitalists, siphon the hard labor of the workers gigantic gains and rob off their labor rights will remain in power.

The demonic “No Election” plan will sharpen the horns of these politicians. Lifting restrictions on foreign investments to attract more foreign capitalists means laying the Filipino workers as sacrificial lambs; thus contractualization, mass lay-offs and retrenchments will boom (after local companies and businesses close because of the competition).

The militant workers under the banner of Kilusang Mayo Uno detest the extension of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo into office until 2010. What the workers want is to oust this fake, fascist and miserable president. Arroyo clearly turned her back from her promises to the Filipino workers. Before she took the presidency, following the EDSA people power II, she pledged acting upon the workers’ plight. Then again, she also gave them the worst sufferings.

The workers love changes; true changes however. The exploitative system should be duly replaced by a just and humane society. This is when the Filipino masses will rightly benefit – the true change everyone aspires.

NO TO CHA-CHA!
OUST GMA!
LONG LIVE THE WORKERS!
STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND WELFARE! #

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