MIWD mng’t pushes for hiring anew of contractual employees
It looks like the clash between the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) employees and the board of directors are far from over.
This, following reports that the MIWD Board of Directors is not bent on approving the budget for the salary of the existing contractual workers.
Amarylis Castro, MIWD admin and finance officer, already foresaw a problem in the water district’s operations once the contracts of existing contract workers will not be renewed once it expires by June 30, 2010.
“Kung wala gid ini sila, ma hamper gid ang operations ta. Paano na lang kung wala na ma-deliver sang bill? Wala na sang ma read sang meter. Wala na sang ma-repair sang leaks. Gamay na lang ang nabilin ta nga taw. Indi na enough,” she said in a television interview.
However, if indeed the board of directors will not heed to their call and pushes through with the reported plan, Castro said that they would make most of what they have.
“I hope the board of directors would be reasonable enough to reconsider our proposal nga ibalik ang budget nga ina for our existing casual employees,” she added.
It was gathered that the MIWD management wrote to the board of director to reconsider the renewal of contractual employees.
It can be noted that the MIWD management and over 120 of the agency’s employees came into conflict with the MIWD board of director over their opposing views on what to do with the MIWD.
While the management would want the water district to be converted into a cooperative, the board of directors allegedly want it privatized.
MIWD General Manager Le Jayme Jalbuena earlier said that they would want the water district to be turned into a cooperative with all employees owning a share of the water district.
On the other hand, the MIWD Board of Directors allegedly pushed for a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which is “most suited for MIWD in effectively managing, operating, improving and maintaining its water supply facilities aimed to respond to the water, sewer and sanitation needs of the ever growing populace of its service area.”
