Around 3,000 workers from all over Southern Mindanao ?eventually made it the protest ?march ?here on Labor Day despite holding for hours the throng of mostly plantation workers ?in a highway in three provinces in the Davao Region.
There is no need for Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to sign an executive order (EO) or for Congress to pass a legislation banning the illegal contractualization of workers since the same law has already been stipulated in Article 106 of the Philippine Labor Code, a labor group leader said on Tuesday, May 1.
As thousands of labor groups troop to the streets during the Labor Day protest on Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the executive order (EO) prohibiting illegal contracting, or subcontracting, and strengthening workers’ rights to security of tenure in the country.
Different unions in Compostela town staged a barricade along the national highway in Nabunturan town after police and government soldiers prevented them from going to Davao City for the Labor Day protest action.
Three labor organization in Mindanao are set to march together on the 132nd commemoration of Labor Day to express frustration on President Duterte's failure to end contractualization.