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The fight for a living wage/salary, for jobs and full union rights. The demand for a living wage and other benefits becomes even more necessary amidst the debilitating effects of a structurally weak economy.

Alongside is the call for the protection of the inviolable right to security of tenure in our jobs in the wake of mass lay-offs brought about by privatization and the re-engineering of the bureaucracy. The continued fight for the right to self-organization and the exercise of the right to strike is important in recognition that it is the most effective weapon to protect workers’ rights.

Advocacy and vigilance against militarization of the bureaucracy and the perpetuation of a patronage system that attacks the merit and promotion system of the Civil Service.

The struggle against the government policy of privatization is an immediate concern because this policy only benefits foreign monopoly capital and their local cohorts such as big business, politicians and high bureaucrats at the expense of the Filipino people.

Privatization has raised the issues of mass lay-offs and further inaccessibility of the Filipino masses to basic social services.

Active participation against the government’s triad policy of liberalization, deregulation and privatization. The public sector joins all sectors in the struggle against the intensification of the exploitation of the Filipino people and the country’s wealth by foreign monopolies through such policies as liberalization, deregulation and privatization which are being implemented in the guise of national development.