ALAM helps Philpost workers denounce Josie dela Cruz

ALAM helps Philpost workers denounce Josie dela Cruz

To dismiss hundreds of employees receiving a meager salary of P6,000 a month for a reason that the Philippine Postal Corporation is losing hundreds of millions a year is quite reasonable, but to hire three (3) consultants for P70,000 each is ironic.

This is how Alab ng Mamamahayag (ALAM) President Berteni “Toto” Causing see Postmaster General Josie Dela Cruz’s infamy in managing the affairs of the government owned and controlled corporation.

ALAM is a private organization that extends legal assistance to indigent individuals and groups like the Philpost Rank and File Employees Association or PRAFEA.

In the protest that called for the ouster of Dela Cruz from the Philpost last February 24, 2012, Causing, who is also the legal counsel of the National Press Club, maintained that it is inhuman for Dela Cruz to favor three consultants for a salary of P210,000 a month than the 35 workers for the same pay.

In the November 11, 2011 memorandum of Dela Cruz, she appointed Ma. Lourdes N. Tiquia, Lilibeth Amatong and Suzette Lopez as consultants for Management, Organizational Development, and Human Resource, respectively.

The infamy of Dela Cruz is a shame to the Province of Bulacan where she once served as governor and where the country’s national heroes like Marcelo H. Del Pilar, also known as Plaridel, and Gregorio H. Del Pilar came from.