By Gigi Munoz-David | Posted on Apr. 17, 2013 at 12:02am
A fishing sector party-list group slammed the failure of the Aquino administration to resolve the power crisis in Mindanao will leave about 55,000 people jobless in canning factories and deep-sea fishing vessel firms in General Santos City, Zamboanga Peninsula and South Cotabato.
Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) vice chairman Salvador France joined by Anakpawis partylist vice chairman Fernando Hicap said the eight-hour balckouts will cause downsizing of production and further erode wages.
“Mr. Aquino should not ignore this economic holocaust now unfolding all over Mindanao and being witness with outrage by the Filipino public. Imagine the impact of power crisis to 50,000 fish workers and fishport workers in Zamboanga Peninsula, General Santos City and the entire Socksargen area. If he continues to play dumb or offers damn solutions to the power crisis, then he better face the political costs of his arrogance and negligence and subservience to power monopoly interests,” the leaders said in a statement.
Pamalakaya and Anakpawis said oil price increases in 2009 and 2010 forced
“The focus of outrage against the power crisis in Mindanao should be on the Aquino administration’s deregulated policy on the power industry and those transnational companies who take advantage of the deregulated regime to gain huge profits by exploiting Filipino businessmen in canning industry and the fish workers,” they added.
The power outages in Mindanao had caused Filipino businessmen to lose as much as P300 million in unrealized sales and higher costs which started this summer, according to France and Hicap. source
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