Poor get P4K to ‘hide’ them from APEC meet

The country’s biggest coalition of labor unions and federations on Monday assailed the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for its “futile” idea of “hiding” more than 4,000 street families during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on November 17-20 in Manila.

Wilson Fortaleza, spokesman for Partido Manggagawa (PM), one of the 49 labor organizations belonging to Nagkaisa, said the DSWD is making the idea work by giving families “rent” money not only for the duration of the summit but also for the next 12 months.