DAVAO City — Roseno Mabale, 42 has been a school janitor for half of his life.
He started working as a school janitor the Ateneo de Davao University (Addu) in 1996 under a service provider and he remembered it was on March 16, 1997 when an area was assigned for him to clean inside the campus of Addu along Jacinto Street.
In an interview, Mabale said he would wake up at 4am to work from 5am to 11am and another shift from 12 noon to 2pm. He earns a net income of P6,900 monthly to support his family.
But Mabale and dozens of workers in Addu have been prohibited from entering the school. He found himself jobless after more than 20 years of work.
Mabale is the vice president of the Samahan ng mga Manggagawang Blue Collar sa Ateneo (Samabca) who are protesting what they call is the university’s union busting and unfair labor practice. The Samabca is an organization which the workers put up last June 28 to assert the rights of rank and file workers who are under the Blue Collar Manpower Services Inc.
“The school management wanted us to file voluntary resignation and to apply under the new service provider of the school,” Mabale said.
However, Mabale said they do not want to file a resignation because this would mean cutting the length of service they have rendered. Some of his colleagues have served over a year. They were also unsure wether the new service provider will automatically hire them.
Mabale said the contract between Addu and Blue Collar started in 2003. (davaotoday.com)
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