Rigudon at CDC

The last few days brought a lot of raised eye brows. There are those who applauded the action of the new president and there are those who question the move to reorganized the structure of CDC.

 

Hey, did you know that ten years ago CDC have been in a similar situation?

Read this posts and then come back here....

THE T.O. Mga Bagay Bagay na Kailangang Tuunin ng Pansin

And this

What Is The Table Of Organization? (again...?)

It was 2003. Reorg. Offices were created. ACCES officers getting promoted. Dejavu?

But this thing here is different. Managers and supervisors were made to ride a Carousel, a Merry-Go-Round. And it is really amusing and bemusing at the same time.

Instead of adding more organizations within CDC, the somewhat overloads were removed. And then it got the bejezus out of me...

The Marketing Department was virtually chainsawed!!! Heads off, arms off, legs off. What the? And the bitter joke was that those who've remained in Md are the dudes and dudettes who are traveling on the straight and Narrow Path. Hail OCA!!!

The grapevine has it that there will be more like this. It will be the R&F whole get the next dose. I hope not.

On the serious side...

We all know that there are those who aspires for a better post in CDC. There are assistant managers who have been OIC for a long time and are just inches away from becoming the head Honcho. And in so doing if the OIC/A.M. gets promoted there will be a vacated position for A.M. and then Supervisory and a rank file aspiring to be a supervisor. Its a Spiral staircase.

With this reorg those aspirations got plugged off. There will be no open posts. And then again... We All Stood Still

 So, there you are. Your boss got transferred. Is it a tearful "Good Bye" or a  headspinning high Five-ing Jumping Jack Flash "Good Ridance".

And so there you are.  You got a new boss. Is it a red carpet welcome or do you think it is better to get a poltergeist...

A disruptive presence as one former CDC President said it. Is that what you've got?

Is the reorg good. I have my own opinion it is most naturally welcome to some extent.

Throw them rocks at me will ya?

  

Is GCG The Ultimate Union Busting Tool of the Government? (Part 3–well sort of)

This is Part 3. If you want to read Part 1 click here, for Part 2 click here.

Third Point – ACCES and the CDC Management Reluctance in a CBA (sort of)

Yesterday, I’ve blogged about the ACSP and the R.A. and the A.O. and the still stood still status quo. Well as fate would have it, the ACSP got what the they have bargained for on the same date as the second blog.

And this is how it happened…. AAAHHHHHH…..(in one breath)

They continued with arbitration, the AVA ruled in favor of them, CDC asked for reconsideration, reconsideration is denied by the AVA, CDC did not comply, walked out, the sheriff came and forced the monies out of the bank. Done.

I congratulate our supervisors for this daunting experience, but as the say “The law should always be in favor of the labor”.

Now look at this….







(!!!Warning not for the weak of heart or vegetarians, viewers discretion is advised!!!)


You have been properly warned.


 



This my friend, is a cow rotating on its axis, on a bamboo pole, underneath are glowing charcoals.

Take a hint ACSP, I know you could read my mind. If you don't here's another hint.

As for the Third Point, I should delay for sometime later. The ACCES will be having a General Assembly tomorrow at 12:00 P.M. and I think it will be all about … don’t know, a Strike Vote maybe.

Kill joy.

Is GCG The Ultimate Union Busting Tool of the Government? (Part 2)

This is part 2. If you want to read Part One please do so here.

Second point – THE ACSP CBA AND THE GCG OPINION

Another brief history…

Our supervisors have this union called Association of Concerned Supervisory Personnel (ACSP) and the CDC management went into a Collective Bargaining Agreement sometimes in 2011. They thought that it was all well but then here comes E.O. 7 and R.A. 10149 which virtually put what has been agreed on their CBA into an indefinite hold. And yes, as of this writing nothing on the bargain came out of the tunnel.

In the long run ACSP went into arbitration with an AVA (Accredited Voluntary Arbitrator.. and so we stood... Still stood still, we all stood still.

 The rank and file union, Association of Concerned CDC Employees (ACCES), to which I belong also still stood still, because what’s happening with the ACSP will also surely happen to us.

So.

Management is in the position that their hands are tied behind their back because of the opinion of the Governance Commission for GOCC, take note of the word OPINION. GCG is in the opinion that due to those mentioned E.O. and R.A. as well as these E.O. 811, E.O. 900 and R.A. 7875 all negotiations, bargains and the process of arbitration should stop. Please open all this links right now, we’ll do some experiment later.

GCG says on their letter to our then president, Eduardo S.L. Oban “CBA’s between employees and GOCC employers may no longer be NEGOTIATED. Being no longer a subject for negotiation, such CBAs are furthermore taken out of the jurisdiction of Arbitration Proceedings and hence effectively no longer a proper subject in such proceedings.”

Here’s some juicy stuff from that letter

“…nor are their Governing Boards authorized to enter into collective bargaining negotiations or be bound to arbitration proceedings…”

The whole ending paragraph says:

“Based on the foregoing, any agreement derived from the Arbitration Conference is in no way binding to either party. A CBA between employees and a GOCC employer is no longer a proper subject of arbitration. Any and all agreements, especially those concerning increases in rates of salaries, allowances, incentives and other benefits will still be subject to the moratorium as prescribed by E.O. 7, s. 2010. All increases shall require the approval of the President of the Philippines. Furtheremore, assuming that such increases in the CBA is approved by the President, such CBA shall still be subject to changes and modifications so as to comply to the CPCS that GCG will subsequently promulgating and adopting.”

I don’t know no nuts nor bolts nor tender eggs about law nor R.A. nor E.O. but I’d looked all those mentioned EOs and RAs above and just did an explicit search on these FOUR keywords 1. Collective 2. Bargaining 3. Agreement 4. CBA, and I don’t even get a single hit. Did you? (the experiment end). So there’s that…

None of them explicitly mentions CBA. If it isn’t there CBA between ACSP and CDC Management should not be affected, right? Please do enlighten me if I’m wrong, Anyways, about implicit reference to CBA, is there anything there that implies that the CBA is against the law? I don’t see that too.

The opinion of GCG may hold water in the narrowest of senses, but then we have the Philippine Constitution and the Philippine Labor Code which guarantee the workers rights.

Abangan mo Mang Joey ang Part 3.