For the past 60 years of existence in the Philippine labor movement, the National Executive Officers of Philippine Trade and General Workers Organization (PTGWO) in cooperation of the International Labor Organization sub regional office in Manila review policies and programs of the organization through the gender participatory audit.

Mr. Victorino F. Balais, National President, PTGWO, said that his participation in promoting the equality between men and women started in 70’s.

 “Imagine if union has no women – it looks like a home without a mother”. The union at this age should follow the golden rule in promoting equality between men and women. The traditional judgment of inequality and discrimination must put an end to. We are union, we are the one supposedly promote the interest and protect the rights of all workers and not the one that tried to downgrade the morality and injustice, he added.

The workshop evaluation recommended to the Executive Board of the PTGWO for its approval the following action agenda:

• Orientation Session on Sexual Harassment at the Local Level including the complaint mechanism
• Gender Sensitivity Training at the National Level
• Formation of database profile system for women and youth
• Review the Constitution and By-Laws of all local unions