Replace Bello, labor groups urge Duterte

MULTI-sectoral groups are poised to hold mass actions in Mendiola to denounce the new contracting order and to call for the replacement of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd.

They have yet to pick a date for the protest rallies.

Sanlakas Secretary General Aaron Pedroso said the protest will promise to end contractualization.

well as human rights advocates, will join the Mendiola protest rally.

Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pili the country to hold similar protests to prod the President to keep his campaign promise and to sack Bello.

At a news conference in Quezon

- lished policy on contractualization... that it must be regulated rather than - dent Luke Espiritu said.

Espiritu said the new order regulates and does not prohibit contractualization.

“What appears, therefore, as a progressive advance from less to stricter regulation by the State development of service providers from initially operating as alteregos of the principal of becoming capitalists themselves,” he noted. Pedroso branded the new order as was campaigning for president.

does not end contractualization at all, it does not go with what

He said lawmakers should have focused on ending contractualization instead of pushing for the revival of death penalty.

“Ending contractualization should be the top priority of the President with the Senate and the House following it, because when - ing, he promised that he will end contractualization,” Pedroso said.

“He already talked with the laborers but it’s like a two-way approach because his secretary [ Bello] is doing another thing. He already met with some [labor] groups and our goal here is to widen the main goal, which is to end contractualization,” he added.

Pedroso, Espiritu and other groups called on the President to replace Bello by someone who “will be able to meet and execute the President’s promises.”

“If he [Bello] cannot do his job right to wipe out contractualization, then he should be replaced by a more deserving person,” Pedroso said.

The Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) slammed the biased to the capitalists.

of pro-capitalists and pro-imperialists. This totally did not resolve what the people are calling out for, which is to end [contractualiza