Saturday, April 28, 2007 Militant partylist leery about Dole's new program By Grace L. Plata
ALTHOUGH efforts of the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) to create a harmonious relationship between the management and the labor sector are commendable, Anakpawis said it will not prove effective in the long run.
Kilusang Mayo Uno-established Anakpawis Party said Dole's recently launched Labor Management Program may help temporarily ease the tension between a conflicting labor force and management but it will never result in its goal of a harmonious, productive relationship between the two parties in a long-term basis.
"As long as the companies stick with the theory that profit and wages go hand in hand, it will never work," said Anakpawis Vice-President for Mindanao Omar Bantayan.
Bantayan explained that if companies are always out to make a profit to the extent of compromising the deserved wages and benefits of their employees just to cost-cut, Dole's efforts will remain stop-gap measures to conflict instead of being a solution.
"Companies always maintain a profit margin and if they will always put this profit margin first over just wages, there will never be harmony, "Bantayan said.
Bantayan said that, as a result, the workers are always at the losing end.
