Cebu, Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu to mark Labor Day with "run"

CEBU, Philippines - The Mandaue City government, in coordination with Cebu City and Lapu-Lapu City, various companies will celebrate Labor Day today with a “solidarity run.”

Vice Mayor Glenn Bercede, alternate chair of Tripartite Industrial and Peace Council (TIPC-Mandaue) said city hall and TIPC officials led by Mayor Jonas Cortes will receive the TIPC banner at UCLM area, at the foot of the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge from the runners of TIPC-Lapu-Lapu.

From here, Bercede said, his group will run towards corner A.C. Cortes where a group of workers from Sunpride Foods, Inc., Giardini del Sole, Cenapro Chemicals, and Mastercraft will receive the banner and in turn run to Days Hotel.

There, a group of workers from PTMC, Visayan Enamel, Shemberg, and Greencoil-Philcoil will receive the banner and run to the Coca-Cola plant where workers from Coca-Cola, San Miguel Brewery, Inc., and SMYPC will proceed to Land Bank area in barangay Tipolo.

Again workers from Mandaue Foam and Treasure Island, bringing the banner, will make their way to Subangdaku Elementary School to turn over the banner to workers of GSMI and A.D. Gothong.

This group will make the final run up to Innodata where their counterpart from Cebu City will in turn receive the banner and proceed with their caravan to the USC-South campus Cultural Center for the final activity.

“This is one way of showing our solidarity. For us, labor, management, and the government sector are partners of development and can always solve any labor problem through open dialogues,” Bercede said.  (FREEMAN)