Noting that “red-tagging” legal and legitimate unions poses grave dangers to the life of an organization and its leaders, the ACT Philippines filed a complaint to the ILO against the Department of Education (DepEd). ManilaBulletin
ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio, in a statement issued Thursday, April 20, said that intensified “red-tagging” of no less than the Vice President and Secretary of DepEd Sara Duterte against teachers’ unions only indicates that the Philippine government is “not upholding” the recommendations made by the High-Level Tripartite Mission of the International Labor Organization when the body investigated the cases of violations against freedom of association last January.
Received by ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Chihoko Asada Miyakawa, the complaint reported of the DepEd statements released through its official Facebook page, signed by the DepEd Secretary, red-tagging ACT on March 4 and 6, 2023, concerning the announced strike by transport groups, as well as on March 27, 29, 30 and 31, 2023 in which the DepEd connected the Masbate armed conflict to ACT’s call for the hiring of 30,000 teachers.
Basilio said that “red-tagging” legal and legitimate unions is a “violation of the freedom of association.” Basilio said that the ILO-HLTM has observed that despite the government’s denial that a red-tagging policy is in place, the “repeated reference of government agencies to the alleged connection of workers and unions to the Communist Party of the Philippines clearly belies this claim.”
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