Labor and industry leaders in Negros vowed to unite and maintain industrial peace in the province during the conference of the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council held recently, a government press release said.

At the TIPC meeting presided over by the new Director of the Department of Labor and Employment regional office in Western Visayas, Ponciano Ligutom, Labor, management and government representatives reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate in maintaining industrial peace as a requirement in achieving a stable economy in the province, the press release said.

Ligutom said he recognizes the urgent need to unify all sectors to attain industrial harmony and development in Negros amidst intensifying restiveness in the economy of Negros.

The TIPC was organized during the administration of President Corazon Aquino through Executive Order No. 403 and was further developed in the succeeding administrations.

Participants in the conference was employers and management representatives from the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bacolod Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc., Southern Negros Chamber Inc. Bacolod; Confederation of Sugarcane Producers, National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operators, Inc., and Philippine Constructors Association – Negros, representatives also jointed the event.

Labor organizations were represented by the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines, Democratic Alliance of Labor Organizations, Commercial Agricultural and Industrial Labor Organization, National Federation of Labor Unions, National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), Alliance of Labor for Reform Movement, the press release said.

Government officials of various agencies like the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board, and Bacolod City Government also participated in the conference.

Both labor and management raised issues such as call for wage hike, and contractualization of workers, which have been affecting labor-management relations, and employment situation, the press release said.*

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