The TUCP Party-List, the largest worker’s party in the Philippines recently declared Anthony B. Sasin as its second nominee for the party’s 2010 congressional bid. Sasin is TUCP’s long-time member and consultant on labor and Mindanao affairs. Part of his services to TUCP is forging a better relationship between labor and management by focusing in productivity improvement with gain-sharing for workers.
“As a long-time party member and labor consultant of TUCP, I have developed and implemented programs and projects which paved the way for building better labor-management relations particularly in Mindanao,” Sasin said.
The party-list nominee stressed that his main goal in his work as labor consultant of TUCP is to create more efficient and more productive workers who are the real assets of the country.
“We have a very talented labor force in the country. Our OFWs are highly respected in their respective fields around the globe. I am proud of our workers,” he declared.
TUCP said it nominated Sasin “because he has deep knowledge and exposure in the banana industry and has forged stronger ties with labor and farmers cooperatives.”
“In my long work for TUCP, I strived to come-up with strategies and approaches on how we can have more harmonious and more creative management-labor relations in the country where both sides understand each other’s position and work on the basis of give-and-take compromise,” explained Sasin.
Sasin’s job for TUCP also revolved around workers’ training for global competitiveness.
“I have created programs for human resource development as one of our advocacies. We wanted to see empowered work force who can contribute more to our economy and society and at the same time share in the fruits of economic growth,” Sasin said.
The party-list nominee also expounded some of the issues he personally advocates which are still in line with the TUCP agenda, most particularly the development of Mindanao.
“As TUCP consultant on Mindanao affairs, I urged the Philippine Government to help fast-track the deepening of regional integration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan and China in the wake of global economic recovery. We must seize the opportunities that present themselves to us now. The world is recovering from financial slump and we must capitalize on the strengths that we have in the region,” he said.
“As I see it, we really have to further solidy our ties through the ASEAN with our giant neighbors – Japan and China. Presently, Japan is the world’s second largest economy and China poses to dislodge Japan. Whichever, ASEAN will have the second and third largest trading partners with vast markets. It will mean more businesses and more jobs for Filipinos,” Sasin added.
“I also pushed the government to give more assistance to the country’s banana industry which supports the livelihood of more than 200,000 workers and their families. We must give more priority to an industry which gives the country hundreds of million of dollars in export revenues per year and sustained the economic growth of Mindanao for more than three decades,” he said.
“The contributions of the banana industry to national and regional development are clear to see. That is why we have to further support the growth of this sector,” Sasin stressed.
“I also asked the government about the status of implementation of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-the Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) which was formally launched in 1994. The BIMP-EAGA was an economic cooperation scheme envisioned to accelerate economic development in the region.”
“As a concerned citizen of Mindanao, I am deeply interested to know what we have accomplished in this particular area. Through BIMP-EAGA, we expected that foreign direct investments will pour into the country especially in Mindanao that will create businesses and employment opportunities. We are saddened by the present situation of our nation. This is why we are supporting initiatives that will lead us to economic security favoring alternative routes such as more intensified regional economic integration with our fellow Southeast Asians,” Sasin added.
The TUCP Party-List is absolutely confident that Sasin will be able to represent labor interests in Congress in a more novel and dynamic manner.
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