1st Quarter 2013 industrial peace situation remains peaceful and stable



Date Posted: April 8th, 2013 02:37 AM

1st Quarter 2013 industrial peace situation remains peaceful and  stable
NCMB Executive Director Reynaldo R. Ubaldo has reported that the entire country was strike-free for the first three months of 2013.
In his report to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Director Ubaldo said that it was the second year in a rowthat no strike occurred during the first quarter.
“We did this through the provision of timely, efficient, and effective conciliation-mediation services to parties involved in potential or brewing labor disputes,” he said.
“Our time tested strategies of 24/7 conciliation and team/buddy conciliation have been effective in diffusing tensions between labor and management, preventing what could have been debilitating strikes in many companies,” Ubaldo said further.
Team conciliation and 24/7 scheme in attending to conciliation-mediation cases are being implemented by the NCMB to effectively manage  labor disputes and minimize, if not prevent losses to the workers, to the company, and to the economy.
Under the 24/7 scheme, conciliator-mediators are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure quick response to clients’ requests for assistance and to make sure that labor disputes are attended to, with the purpose of bringing about early and amicable settlement.
Team, or buddy, conciliation is a scheme or strategy anchored on the principle “Two heads are better than one”. It involves partnering of two to three conciliators whose combined efforts and expertise are expected to facilitate settlement of critical and difficult cases.
“Threats of a strike also declined considerably, as notices of strike filed by unions continue to follow a downward trend,” Director Ubaldodisclosed further.
He said that NCMB regional branches received 36 notices of strike during the quarter, 14% fewer than the 42 cases docketed during the same period last year.
There is a slight increase in workers involved in new notices of strike, though, hinting that bigger companies are the targets of fresh strike threats. Some 5,334 workers are involved in the 36 NS cases received during the first quarter of 2013, 2% more than the 5,230 workers involved in the 42 cases docketed in similar period in 2012.
Independent unions account for close to half – 17 cases or 47% –  of the 36 new notices filed during the quarter. Others were filed by affiliated unions and federations.

In 2012, all the three strikeswere declared by unions allied with NAFLU-KMU. Of the 33 notices of strike pending as of 31 March 2013, ten cases were filed by unions allied with either KMU or NAFLU.
“We continue to exert efforts to maintain the current state of labor relations in the country, so disruptions in the industrial front do not get in the way of the administration’s efforts tosecure a better lifefor our people, most especially the private sector workers who comprise a large segment of our population,”Ubaldosaid.
Secretary Baldoz commended NCMB for its efforts and said that " win- win" strategy through conciliation and settlement is the best.
WILLIAM E. CALINA, labor communications officer, NCMB

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