The labor group vowed “to make red the dominant color of the day and defiance the buzzword of the day”, as thousands of people are traditionally expected to rally on the last State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno ‘PNoy’ Aquino III on Monday, July 27, 2015.

The militant Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) in their plans to march on the last SONA of President Noynoy Aquino, in a report ‘Unfazed by the barbed wire, CCTV cameras and the seven thousand security forces.

According to BMP, “Despite trooping yearly, we have much more enthusiasm than ever before. Living under the elitist policies of Aquino for five burdensome has armed us with the determination,” said Leody de Guzman”.

In additional, the labor sector bore the heaviest brunt of Aquino’s continuance of the neo-liberal economic agenda of his predecessors and advanced it even further.

In the five year Anti-Worker Track Record, “The past five years has been exceptionally taxing on the Filipino workers. Aquino attacked us on two fronts. On one hand, he suppressed wages despite the cost of living for a family of six has breached the 1,200+ peso levels already and also at the same time, he withheld government subsidies on basic services. This in effect, De Guzman explained, made workers’ pay slips fend off the entirety of the cost of living despite the fact that laborers are the primary tax base of the state”.
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