By CONG B. CORRALES
Associate Editor .
THE supposed historic alliance between rival labor federations, Kilusang Mayo Uno and Alliance of Trade Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines fizzled out at the eleventh hour yesterday. ALU-TUCP will not be joining the Labor Day march in the city today.
In a phone interview, Wildon Barros of KMU here said they received a letter from the national office of ALU-TUCP indicating that they will not take to the streets on Labor Day as they promised in the Nagkaisa Labor Coalition joint press statement issued last week.
The Nagkaisa Labor Coalition, Barros said, consists of the Federation of Free Workers, ALU-TUCP, and KMU’s National Federation of Labor Unions.
“Wala pa hinuon mi nakadawat gikan sa FFW pero sa pag beg-off sa ALU-TUCP, essentially wala na’y alliance,” he said.
Barros said ALU-TUCP did not elaborate why they were begging off from the alliance.
For his part, lawyer Proculo Sarmen of ALU-TUCP confirmed the order of their national office saying their federation is more into raising the living standard of the workers and not politics.
“We don’t believe in the message of hate. We believe in inclusive development,” Sarmen told the Gold Star Daily yesterday.
Barros said they have planned to hold a symbolic merging of “forces” at Kiosko Kagawasan in Divisoria today and hold a unified program calling for an end to labor-only-contracting.
“Tungod kay mi-beg off man sila (ALU-TUCP), kami na lang gihapon mu martsa as we do every Labor Day,” he said.
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