Teachers poised to sue GSIS
July 29, 2008 22:47:00
Jerry E. Esplanada
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Public school teachers are set to file a class suit against the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) over some P2.5 to P6 billion in unpaid teachers’ premiums.
The GSIS, however, said the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) was barking up the wrong tree, pointing to the Department of Education (DepEd) as the one responsible for deducting pension fund contributions from its employees and remitting the premium to GSIS.
The GSIS also questioned the motives of the 15,000-strong ACT and accused it of allowing itself to be used by the Lopez family group to “wage war for the Manila Electric Company (Meralco).â€
The GSIS and the Lopez family fought for control of Meralco during board elections last May. The Lopez group retained control of the utility but GSIS, which holds substantial shares in the electric utility, has countered with various legal suits.
But ACT chair Antonio Tinio strongly denied the allegation, which he called “absurd, ignorant and desperate.â€
Tinio on Tuesday told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that “long before (GSIS president and general manager) Winston Garcia raised a peep against Meralco, ACT was already out in the streets campaigning against the [huge] profits being made by Meralco and other utilities at the people’s expense,†Tinio noted.
He said Garcia’s policies and programs, have “made life miserable for thousands of public school teachers and other GSIS members.â€
Tinio asked the GSIS to “attend to the legitimate grievances of its members instead of spewing out baseless and malicious lies against its critics.â€
According to Tinio, the GSIS and DepEd are “supposedly undertaking a reconciliation of accounts, a process that has been going on for nearly four years with very little progress.â€
“It’s stalled at the very first step—the updating of teachers’ service records which is still not yet complete,†he said.
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