PhilPost disowns 2 unions

The Philippine Postal Corp. (Philpost) yesterday lashed back at protesting workers seeking the ouster of Postmaster General Josefina de la Cruz, saying they were not even from the agency’s recognized labor union.

“We will deal with the accredited union which is the PhilPost Employees Union of the Philippines,” PhilPost information officer Marc Laurente told the Inquirer a day after members of the PhilPost Workers Union (PWU) and the Philpost Rank and File Employees Association (Prafea) staged mass actions against De la Cruz.

“The PWU and Prafea do not even represent one percent of our employees,” Laurente said. “Not all of them are even our employees.”

He said PWU president Tirso Paglicawan has not been with the agency since his failed bid to run as vice president of the Philippines.

The PWU and Prafea complained that hundreds of Philpost workers had been laid off due to cost-cutting measures initiated by De la Cruz last year.