Indignant rank-and-file employees belonging to the CDC-ACCES (Association of Clark CDC Employees) urged the state-run Clark Development Corporation (CDC) to implement the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that it signed in March 2012.
The CDC workers were conducting peaceful lightning demonstrations everyday during lunch break calling on the CDC to honor the CBA agreement.
The CDC froze the CBA after the Governance Commission on GOCCs (GCG) informed the base conversion body that “CBAs between employees and GOCC employers may no longer be negotiated” in light of Executive Order No. 7 and the GOCC Governance Act of 2011 (Republic Act No. 10149).
CDC-ACCES president Paul Mamangun said the workers sought salary increase and the restoration of medical benefits among others.
CDC Public Relations Manager Noel Tulabut, however, said the “ACCES officers have been told many times over that CDC’s arms, as government corporation, are tied by certain prohibitions imposed by new prohibitions and rules against new economic benefits.”
“While it is everyone’s goal for better economic status, we are duty bound to uphold certain rules,” according to Tulabut.