On Labor Day, workers vow to rally vs Aquino’s failure to address pressing issues
This Labor Day, the workers and the poor will take President Benigno
“Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond to their calls,
making the hunger and poverty situation in the country even worse, and
exceeding even the previous government’s puppetry to the US.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Since President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III became
president, he has engendered criticisms that boil down to “Anybody
home?” and “Noynoying.” The first captures the impression that he is
frequently out of the loop, and the latter, a play on his name, has come
to connote ‘doing nothing.’
The latter has gone viral in the Philippines and abroad as various
groups’ criticisms of Aquino’s inaction on peoples’ issues seemed to
have hit a nerve.
As example, the labor center KMU (Kilusang Mayo Uno) cited the
president’s refusal to hike wages by a significant amount, Aquino’s
refusal also to save workers from contractual employment schemes as
shown in the case of the Philippine Airlines, his government’s failure
to stop the violent demolitions of urban poor communities, the
persistent oil price hikes, and the continued mockery of land reform.
These, the labor center said, prod “the workers and the poor this
Labor Day to take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for
failing to respond to their calls, making the hunger and poverty
situation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous
government’s puppetry to the US.”
In another development, the.... MORE
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