CDC employees want benefits back

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2016/12/14/cdc-employees-want-benefits-back-515133
• Thursday, December 15, 2016

By Chris Navarro

CLARK FREEPORT — Members of the Association of Concerned Clark Development Corporation (CDC) Employees or ACCES for two weeks now have been holding a strike for management to honor their collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

Paul Mamangun, ACCES rank and file president, said that the CDC administration have taken away all their benefits.

“For six years now we have not received the benefits due to us under the CBA.

The previous CDC administration has taken away all benefits invoking Republic Act 10149,” he said.

Mamangun added that the CDC management has refused to discuss the concern with them.

“Ayaw nilang makipag-usap.” But Noel Tulabut, head of CDC’s communication department, in a statement said that the government owned and controlled corporation is bound by certain rules and prohibitions.

"ACCES officers have been told many times over that the CDC's arms, as a government corporation, are tied by certain prohibitions imposed by the new prohibitions and rules against new economic benefits," he said.

"While it is everyone's goal for better economic status, we are duty bound to uphold certain rules," Tulabut said.