POLICE stopped a convoy of militant workers from entering the city to mark the International Labor day celebration on Monday, May 1.

Lt. Col. Evan Viñas, spokesperson of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office said armed policemen from their City Mobile Force stopped around 70 members of the militant Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) at the outskirts of Barangay Bugo, this city on Monday morning.

Viñas said the policemen asked the workers, who were riding motorcycles and other vehicles, to alight and present their identification cards and barangay clearances.

“After they were all checked out, we allowed them to enter the city more than an hour later,” he told MindaNews by phone.

police allowed them to enter Cagayan de Oro at 10am Monday after holding them for three hours under the scorching heat.

“The police stopped our convoy around 6 a.m. and we endured more than four hours under the sun,” Hadman told DXIF Bombo Radyo.

The labor leader said the KMU workers only wanted to parade around the city in their vehicles, not to hold a rally.

She said they also planned to go to the regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment on Corrales Street to meet with the agency officials and air their grievances.

The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) Region-10 said on Labor Day that a second wage increase petition is part of its immediate plans and it is now studying the move by gathering data and facts.They clarified they are thankful for the P40 wage increase last year.

“We are not asking for too much; it’s just for something that is sufficient to give a person sufficient sustenance in terms of their salary," lawyer Doris Javier, ALUTUCP Northern Mindanao

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