Church People - Workers Solidarity - CWS

Church People - Workers Solidarity - CWS Church People - Workers Solidarity (CWS) The Church People – Workers Solidarity (CWS) is a non-profit organization.

It is an ecumenical body composed of bishops, clergy, the religious men and women, lay leaders and workers that shall spearhead in harnessing the church people’s initiatives towards solidarity with the workers. It shall further engage in activities that truly reflect the oneness of the church with the workers’ life and aspirations. The CWS aims to strengthen and sustain their linkages; and to make

a commitment for:

1. a genuine and continuing dialogue between church people and workers.

2. solidarity with Filipino workers in addressing various issues and concerns.

3. cooperation among workers and church people in order to come up with common responses that will actively support the rights of Filipino workers, especially the right to organize.

4. church people to be actively engaged in the efforts of workers to craft a pro-labor code and to assert laws and policies that would protect and guarantee labor rights, especially those that deal with just wages, decent working conditions, security of tenure, the right to a gainful employment, and other labor rights. The Church People — Workers Solidarity is thus an important vehicle to regain and strengthen the unity between church people and workers for the attainment of the common good, where there is justice, peace, freedom and fullness of life.

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02/06/2026



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Sa unang kwarto (first quarter) ng taong 1985, ang huling taon ng diktadurang Marcos sa kapangyarihan, ito ang sitwasyon ng mga mamamayan sa isla ng Negros:

1. Marahas na pagbuwag ng welga ng mga manggagawang bukid sa Hacienda Luisita, Sagay, Negros Occidental;

2. Inaresto ng mga elemento ng 334th Company ng Philippine Constabulary (PC) sa limang mga manggagawa sa bayan ng Sagay — Danilo Libre, Pablo Caraat, Romeo Jonson, Pantaleon Tillo, at Teresita Plarisan — upang lumpuhin ang kanilang unyon;

3. Dinukot ng mga militar sa mga manggagawang sina John Seva at Emilio Togonon sa gitna ng isang rali na pinangunahan ng National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW);

4. Nagwelga ang higit 120 manggagawa at kanilang mga pamilya sa bahay ng asyendero na si Eduardo Claparols, ang nagmamay-ari ng Hacienda Guinsangan, sa bayan ng Silay. Kasama sa panawagan ng mga welgista ang paghimok nila kay Claparols na tumalima sa mga batas sa paggawa ng ating bansa, ang pagtaas sa arawang sahod ng mga manggagawang bukid, at ang pagpayag na gamitin ng mga magsasaka ng asyenda ang ilang bahagi ng lupain ng mga Claparols para sa "subsistence farming."

Ayon sa ulat na ito, na inilathala sa Mayo 1985 issue ng Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) International Bulletin, "Mismanagement of the sugar industry, long controlled by the cronies of President Marcos, have deprived the sugar workers of their only means of subsistence."

"With more than 150,000 sugar workers being displace by the sugar industry crisis," dagdag pa nila, "trouble is, indeed, brewing in the entire Negros island."

Sa paglapit ng pagbagsak ng diktadurang Marcos, higit na tumindi ang tunggalian dito — sa lupa, sa dignidad, at sa buhay. Marami pang dugo ang dadanak sa isla dahil pilit na sinupil ng diktadura ang pag-aalsa ng mga mamamayan ng Negros.



*Ang isyu na ito ng KMU International Bulletin ay bahagi ng digital library ng Bantayog ng mga Bayani.

Maaaring puntahan ang Bantayog digital library sa link na ito: https://bantayogngmgabayani.org/bantayog-digital-library/

Maaari namang mabasa nang buo ang Mayo 1985 edition ng KMU International Bulletin sa link na ito: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MdR5NXfxEmhiV7BqoumjAEiIIQdlBrLZ/view?usp=drivesdk

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