Media Advisory for Bonifacio Day rally

Media Advisory

27 November 2020

LABOR GROUPS TO CALL FOR COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO PROTECT WORKERS AND POOR FROM PANDEMIC, RECESSION, AND CLIMATE CALAMITIES ON BONIFACIO DAY

What: Pagkakaisa ng Uring Manggagawa (PAGGAWA) Press Conference

When: Saturday, 28 November 2020, 9:30am – 11am

Where: Kamameshi House, Quezon Memorial Circle, Elliptical Road, Quezon City

Socialist labor alliance PAGGAWA will hold a press conference on Saturday, November 28, 9:30 a.m., to present a comprehensive list of demands to the Duterte regime, which aim to protect the workers and the poor from the effects of the pandemic, global recession, and climate-induced calamities. These demands will be their basis of unity for their planned mobilization on Bonifacio Day, November 30 and for their campaign until 2022.

Among these demands are following: repeal of the Anti-Terror Law, ending trade union repression, mass-layoffs, and contractualization, continuous aid to the typhoon victims and the unemployed, better public healthcare and social services, and a just transition for transport modernization.

They are also raising the sectoral demands for health workers, urban poor, farmers, students, and the climate justice movement. 

PAGGAWA will likewise criticize the criminal negligence of the Duterte government in its mishandling of the health, jobs, and climate crises, as shown by its bungled response to the recent typhoons.

Aside from PAGGAWA, the press conference will be joined by groups such as Workers for People's Liberation (WPL), various unions from private hospitals, Sanlakas and Partido Lakas ng Masa.

Media Coverage is Requested.

PAGGAWA is composed of the following labor centers and federations: Associated Trade Unions (ATU), Association of Genuine Labor Organizations (AGLO), Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), Katipunan ng Samahang ng mga Manggagawa (KASAMA), Katipunan ng Manggagawang Makabayan (KMM), Metro East Labor Federation (MELF), National Union Based Construction Workers (NUBCW), Socialista, and Workers Advocates for Struggle, Solidarity of Unions in the Philippines for Empowerment and Reforms (SUPER), Workers Advocates for Struggle, Transformation and Organization (WASTO).###

For reference, please contact: Leody De Guzma