ABOUT 150,000 workers are expected to join the nationwide Labor Day rally on Tuesday to call on President Rodrigo Duterte to end widespread job contractualization or “endo.”“This year’s commemoration of Labor Day will be different. It will be a national day of solidarity and action of leaders, members, allies and all citizens who have been frustrated over the injustices committed against workers and the Filipino people and government’s continued inaction and negligence,” labor groups Nagkaisa Labor Coalition (Nagkaisa) and Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said in a joint statement. The groups said that out of 150,000 protesters who would participate in the activity, around 60,000 workers are expected to take the streets of Metro Manila alone. Assembly areas on Tuesday for the Labor Day march in Metro Manila will be at Welcome Rotonda, Kalaw corner Taft Avenue, and Plaza Moriones in Tondo before the groups converge at Mendiola at 10 a.m. [We hope] the President also apply this tag line of his for the benefit of workers,” the groups added.

Source: Manila Times April 29, 2018 08:48 UTC