Manila, Feb. 7 -- Trade Union Congress President (TUCP) Raymond Mendoza appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to "lead from the front", on behalf of the estimated 20 million contractual workers who are awaiting passage of the Security of Tenure bill, by calling upon Senators to immediately pass the measure before Congress adjourns.
"At this moment the Senate is playing Russian roulette with the lives of 20 million workers in precarious jobs. They are the agency-hired workers, the casuals, the seasonals, the project-based, the contractuals. They are the ones who have sacrificed to 'build,build,build' our 6.1% GDP growth even as they tightened belts through the worse inflation spike in nine years," explained Mendoza.
"While we acknowledge t...