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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, March 9, 2018
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BACOLOD City – Labor groups in Western Visayas are lobbying against the proposed closure of the world-famous Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan.
Twenty eight trade union leaders in the region passed a resolution requesting President Rodrigo Duterte not to push through the planned closure.
The resolution was sent to the Office of the President on Tuesday.
It was made on Feb. 28 during the consultation forum of labor groups held at the Department of Labor and Employment field office in Negros Occidental.
Secretary-generalWinnie Sancho of the General Alliance of Workers Association and President Hernane Braza of the Philippine Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Workers Union authored the resolution.
Sancho said closing Boracay will bring “irreparable damages” to 19,000 workers in the island.
He also encouraged other labor groups in the region to pass resolutions or issue petitions against the planned closure.
Through these, the worker’s solidarity will be manifested, he added.
Boracay is currently under fire due to its environmental problems.
Duterte – who called the island a “cesspool” – tasked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Interior and Local Government to fix the island woes within six months.
On Tuesday, the President announced that he would place Boracay under a state of calamity to pave way for the island’s rehabilitation./PN
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