THE plight of workers has not improved under the Aquino administration contrary to its claims. Indeed, workers’ fate may have worsened overburdened as they are with taxes, underwhelmed by state services and plagued with the perennial problems of unemployment and underemployment.

Our manufacturing base has been contracting and we are still very much a remittance dependent country as I mentioned in a previous column.

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