BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
A. Description of the Current Situation
Rates of unionization in the Philippines have increased over the years. However, there is one sector in which organized labors are at historic lows and are unlikely to rebound: government. This has severe implications for the nature of organized labor itself. Unionism grew in the private sector as a result of government support through the passage of laws and the establishment of regulatory bodies intended to encourage the expansion of unionism and collective bargaining throughout the workforce. On the other hand, union organizing in the public sector starterd only after then President Corazon Aquino signed Executive Order No. 180 in pursuant to the Constitutional guarantee to the right to self-organization.
|Region |Registered Unions |Accredited Unions |Registered CNA’s |
|Region I |56 |9 |2 |
|Region II |57 |16 |1 |
|Region III |71 |27 |0 |
|Region IV |132 |42 |5 |
|Region V |64 |16 |3 |
|Region VI |73 |11 |3 |
|Region VII |82 |22 |5 |
|Region VIII |87 |25 |8 |
|Region IX |47 |4 |0 |
|Region X |53 |15 |0 |
|Region XI |100 |32 |7 |
|Region XII |50 |16 |3 |
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