By Billy Begas
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) hit the proposal of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to require individuals who wanted to transact with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to secure police clearance first.
TUCP party-list Rep. Raymond Mendoza said the “unwarranted infringement” of the Constitutional rights of workers “will have a chilling effect on the free and unfettered exercise of workers’ rights.”
“On its face, the request of the PNP to require those dealing with the DOLE to submit National Police Clearances superimposes the heavy-handed police state security apparatus on our labor relations system,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza said DOLE should “categorically reject” the proposal that is “violative of our right to organize and unduly expands the discretion of the State in intervening in the exercise of our Constitutional rights.”
TUCP Vice president Luis Corral also reminded the PNP, DOLE and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) should demonstrate greater political sophistication in dealing with workers since the tariff-free access of many Philippine exports to the United States and Europe is “predicated on the respect of our Government for core labor standards including the right to organize.”
“Now we see profiling and ‘red-tagging’ of legitimate, legal, above-ground labor organizing work placing our workers’ lives and that of our organizers at extreme risk. Then this new initiative attempts to transform the DOLE into an adjunct police agency,” Corral added.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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