No To Contractualization

This people are working for several years now at Purefoods Flour Division a company owned by San Miguel Corporation in Batangas near our place. And my sympathy goes to this people, who work so hard for less. I heard that every 5 or 6 months they have to renew their contract, in order to go back to work and have some food on their table. 

Labor Contractualization is one way for this corporations to remove the Unions and exploit the rights of every worker. They never become regular employees even if they get hired repeatedly for years.

Contractualization of labor is favorable to the employers in more ways than one:

1. Union and strikes are prevented as workers as strictly they are not employees of the employer or principal. A five-month or less contract also does not give the employees a chance to organize.
2. Contractual workers replaced retrenched regular workers.
3. Most of the contractual workers do not have benefits such as PhilHealth and SSS.
4. Contractualization further depresses the already very low wages of workers. 4/10 respondents revealed that they are paid below the mandated minimum wage. From this income, they spend as much as P500 up to P1,000 in application requirements. They also have to pay for the cost of their uniforms and other work paraphernalia.
5. Contractuals cannot refuse overtime work which during the peak season means staying beyond until 10 p.m., though the labour code prohibits this as inhuman practice.
6. Contractualization brings down the workers’ self-esteem. As a whole, management looks down on workers but their biggest contempt is reserved for contractual.
7. It nurtures and reinforces the already prevailing culture of docility and subservience that have been inherited from the feudal-patriarchal culture introduced by Spanish colonizers.

- From Wikipedia on the topic of Contractualization

I say this is GREED.