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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.

INTRODUCED BY ANAKPAWIS PARTY.LIST REPRESENTATIVE

RAFAEL V. MARIANO

A RESOLUTION
DIRECTING THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RTGHTS TO INVESTIGATE,
IN AID oF LEcrsLATIoN, THE KILLING oF cARLos RoDRtGvDz, uNIoN
PRESIDENT OF THE NAGI{AI{AISANG LAI{AS NG MGA MANGGAGAWA SA
CALAMBA WATER DISTRTCT (NLD-CWDI, AN AFFTLIATE MEMBER OF THE
CoNFEDERATTON FOR THE UNITY, ADVANCEMENT AND RECOGNITION OF
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (COURAGEI

WHEREAS,on November L2,2010 at around 5:30 p.m, carlos ,caloy,Rodriguez,

41 years old, union president of the Nagkakaisang Lakas ng Manggagawasa
Calamba Water District (NLD-CWD)was shot dead by motoicy"t"--ilaing men in
Calamba, Laguna;

WHEREAS' NLD-CWD is an affiliate of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition

and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage),a membei organization of
Anakpawis Partylist;

WHEREAS, Rodriguez is also a convenor of Water System Employees' Response

(WATER),a national alliance of water district unions in the
"orrrri.y;
UTHEREAS'Rodriguez is the 22"d victim of extra judicial killing under the
administration of President Benigno simeon Aquino III;

WHEREAS, the killing of Rodriguez happened at a time when water district

employees are fighting against systematic union busting, and political repression
against their ranks;

WHEREAS' during its National Council Meeting held last October 15, 2010,
WATER approved a resolution to launch an international and national campaign
demanding for the recognition of water district employees'right to self-
orgatization, right to peaceful assembly, right to collective bargaining and other
constitutionally guaranteed rights as workers;

WHEREAS, water district employees,including Rodriguez, are legitimate public

servants fighting against the continuing national policies of privatization,
Iibetalization, deregulation that has led to the massive retrenchment and labor
flexibilization in the public sector;
WHEREAS, as a government employee, Rodriguez is an anti-corruption advocate
that staunchly supports the exposition of graft and corruption practice in the
implementation of government projects, particularly in the build-operate-transfer
(BOT)bulk water supply projects;

WHEREAS, as a union leader, Rodriguez is at the forefront in the struggle against

systematic repression of water district employees - including the filing of
administrative cases against union officers, rigorous management policies against
union activities, delay of benefits, forced resignation and illegal termination;

WHEREAS, according_to labor groups Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and COURAGE,
the shooting and death of Rodriguez is yet another consequenceof president
Aquino's decision to continue the implementation of the murderous Oplan Bantay
Laya (OBL) counter-insurgency program of the former Arroyo administration, in
adherence to the US Counter-insurgency Guide.

WHEREAS' KMU leader Elmer Labog also said that the continued killings of
activists and critics of the government is a consequence of the utter failure of the
Aquino administration to prosecute former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyoand
perpetrators of grave human-rights violations that they have committed whiie in
power.

WHEREAS, while President Aquino says that carrying out extra-judicial killings is
not a policy of his administration, nothing is being done to arresi, put to trial and
incarcerate the masterminds and accomplic"" r."ponsible for extra-ludicial
killings,

WHEREAS, based on the documentation of human rights advocates,incidents of

extra judicial killings take place at an alarming pace of 'one activist killed every
week;'

UTHEREAS,out of the 22leaders and members of progressive organizations killed

since June 30, more than half are from affiliates of Anakpawis eirtytist;

NOW THER.EFORE BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the

House Committee on Human Rights to investigate, in aid of legislation, the killing
of carlos Rodriguez, union president of the Nagkakaisang Laki.s ng mga
Manggagawa sa Calamba Water District (NLD-CWD), an amhte m-emberof the
Confederation for the Unity, Advancement and Recognition of Government
Employees (Courage).