A decision by a mediator-arbiter of the Department of Labor and Employment-National Capital Region (DoLE-NCR) involving a certification election (CE) issue among the rank-and-file employees of the country’s biggest bank subverts industrial democracy.
The Banco de Oro Employees Association (BdOEA)-National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) questioned mediator-arbiter Benjo Santos Benavidez’s order for the conduct of a CE among the rank-and-file employees of Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. The decision disregards the will of the overwhelming majority of the rank-and-file (over 9,000 of around 10,500) who affirmed their membership with BdOEA as the exclusive and recognized bargaining representative in collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiations with the bank management.
The 9,000 plus BDOEA members had earlier signed a joint resolution that forms part of the manifestations submitted to DoLE-NCR in seeking the dismissal of the CE petition filed by a certain United Employees of Banco de Oro. The latter has never presented to the DoLE any document of its mandate or membership to justify its petition for a CE, contrary to law. The Labor Code, specifically Book V, Article 256, provides that before a petition for CE can be entertained, a labor organization must show proof that it has at least 25 percent of the total number of members of the bargaining agent.
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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September –
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7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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