Aquino’s new labor laws viewed as ‘Trojan horse’ vs workers - Bulatlat

27.3.13

Aquino’s new labor laws viewed as ‘Trojan horse’ vs workers - Bulatlat: By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com

MANILA – Two decades and four years since his mother’s administration enhanced rather than revoked the martial law-oriented Labor Code, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino seems on the path toward continuing where the first Aquino administration left off. Yesterday (March 24), he signed two new labor laws which the progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) immediately condemned as an “attack on workers’ rights.” The labor group described the two new labor laws as Aquino’s “Trojan horses” for workers this coming Labor Day.

The first of the two laws creates the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council to be headed by the Labor Secretary. It seeks to strengthen tripartism, but according to KMU, it is actually the formal body that would “facilitate the collusion among the government, big capitalists and pro-business labor groups against workers.”