On Teachers’ Welfare During Elections

PRIVILEGE SPEECH OF COUNCILOR MABEL SUNGA ACOSTA
On Teachers’ welfare during elections
2nd Regular Session of the 15th Council, Series of 2010
January 12, 2010

"As the Chairperson of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Madam President, I feel for our teachers. I see their requests as valid and legitimate, considering the importance of the role that they play in our electoral process. All of us, elected officials have in fact, witnessed for ourselves the sacrifices of our teachers just to ensure that every voter’s vote gets to be counted; that the will of the electorate is at all times reflected in the results of the election. During the performance of their function, often times they stay up late, and experience harassments and threats on their lives, and worse, some of them even get killed in the performance of their duty.

I call upon my colleagues in the 15th City Council, let us rally behind and support our teachers in their demand for better conditions than what they have experienced in the past elections. They deserve no less. Not only for this coming May 2010 elections, but in all other similar endeavors as well."

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