Right to Organize, Best Protection for Contractual Workers Published on September 4, 2010

Right to Organize, Best Protection for Contractual Workers

Published on September 4, 2010

“Contractualization is essentially an attack on the right of workers and the people to a living wage, to job security and to exercising trade-union rights. Any form of “protection” under a contractual employment status won’t be enough. Only unionization and regularization will truly protect contractuals.” – KMU

By ALDWIN QUITASOL
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat.com
BAGUIO CITY — The labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) advised the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) that unionization and regularization are the two things that would best serve contractual workers.

KMU said this in reaction to statements by DOLE saying it would “protect” contractual workers and “pursue all-out-effort” to battle forms of contractualization through its Labor Enforcement and Action Program (LEAP). In its website DOLE said its “regional offices will look into the worst cases of contractualization, especially in the agriculture industry by inspecting workplaces.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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