Good riddance to the Father of Labor Contractualization- TUCP
“Good bye to the “Father of Contractualization” who betrayed the
interest of Filipino workers and who was a traitor to the Trade Union
Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)” said Rep. Raymond Democrito C.
Mendoza, referring to former Senator and former TUCP General Secretary
Ernesto” Boy” Herrera.
The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP
Party-List) dismissed the threats of Mr. Herrera as the “laughable,
empty, ridiculous ruminations of a spent political force”. “Mr. Herrera
should wake up to face the bleak existence of a politician without a
constituency, without a base, and without a future. He is despised
universally by Filipino workers as the father of job contractualization.
TUCP was greatly damaged by being associated with him. TUCP is glad to
end any with association with him now. Good riddance,” said Mendoza.
“Boy” attempted a power grab and failed. He is now misrepresenting
himself as president of TUCP. Atty. Democrito Mendoza rescinded his
letter of resignation after the majority of the TUCP General Council
pleaded with Atty. Mendoza not to resign from TUCP. He remains and
continues to be the President of TUCP,” explained Mendoza. “Herrera and his ilk like Alejandro Villaviza of Philippine Federation
of Labor do not have any unions and members to speak of. They are
spent-forces politically and organizationally who cannot command loyalty
from the major labor federations and the unorganized as they have sold
out the workers’ interest. They were the ones who practice
self-dealing,” Mendoza stressed.
“Herrera mismanaged the TUCP
as General Secretary and mishandled the funds intended for TUCP projects
as was unearthed by external auditors hired by the TUCP. An ongoing
external audit conducted has initially surfaced unliquidated advances of
2.5 million pesos to Herrera drawn from a TUCP account funded through a
livelihood grant from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). In
the checks Herrera is both the payor and the payee. That is
self-dealing of the worst sort and he should be ashamed to even invoke
the name of Cory and Ninoy as who Herrera is now and what Herrera is now
taints their very memory,” said Mendoza.
“Herrera and his
cohorts will face multiple charges of financial wrongdoing after the
external audit of TUCP funds is completed. He cannot escape from his
criminal acts against the TUCP and the Filipino workers whom he sold to
corporate greed by authoring labor contractualization in the country,”
he said.
“We are happy to begin anew in TUCP without Herrera,
Villaviza and other supposedly labor leaders who do not actually have
followers. For the longest time, Herrera was a heavy liability to TUCP
as he was tainted with a reputation of corruption and selling out the
workers,” Mendoza said.
“His departure opens up a new chapter in history for the TUCP”, said Mendoza.
“For the record, Boy Herrera fielded his own children as party-list
nominees under a different partylist and Citizens Drug Watch. All
miserably lost because of association with Herrera. They are absolutely
shameless in their disloyalty to the TUCP Party-List. Herrera and
Villaviza are not the TUCP Party. The TUCP Party are the ordinary
workers who are just trying to make a better life for their family
through an honest living. TUCP has no place for crooks,” said Mendoza.
“The end of the Herrera period will now energize TUCP to put a stop to
job contractualization, by passing stronger laws respecting security of
tenure and making labor-only contracting a criminal offense. Herrera
used the TUCP badly, by making it a camouflage for his anti-labor and
anti-worker biases. He compromised TUCP advocacy if it ran counter to
his self-interest. He has used TUCP also, apparently, to unduly enrich
himself at the workers’ expense,” the labor solon finally added.
No comments:
Post a Comment