MENSAHE NG PAKIKIRAMAY
Kaming mga Kababayan at ibang mga Kaibigang taga-Montreal, Quebec, Canada ay nagpapaabot ng aming taos-pusong pakikiramay sa pagpanaw ni Ka Wilson.
Si Ka Wilson ay nagbigay ng isang payak na halimbawa sa ating lahat kung
paano maging matatag na kasapi ng KMU at magbuhos ng lakas at panahon para sa kapakanan at pakikibaka ng mga manggagawa. Ipinakita niya sa kaniyang buhay mula pa sa unang pagtatrabaho niya hanggang sa maging Secretary General siya ng KMU and kaniyang tunay at taimtim na pagsunog sa mga paninindigan ng mga manggagawa. Pumanaw man siya ay nag-iwan siya ng tanging halimbawa na pamamarisan natin.
Nawa ay mapasa-kaniya ang walang hanggang katahimikan. Nawa ay manatili sa ating puso at kaisipan at sundin ang landas na tinahak niya para sa mga
manggagawa.
A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE
We Filipinos and non-Filipino friends from Montreal, Quebec, Canada send
our heartfelt condolences to all those who have known and lived with Ka
Wilson.
You are indeed lucky to have related and worked and lived with Ka Wilson.
We are edified by the life and example of this man. To the youth he has
shown the example of active involvement in a militant youth organization.
As a man of responsibility, he worked as a security guard at the Manila
domestic airport and a quality control in charge at the Mabuhay Textile
Mills and then led the workers union as its President in that factory
towards successful struggles against workers’ rights violations. Later on
he led the Bayan organization in Valenzuela, Bulacan. He continued to show
his concern for the workers and the community by becoming an educator and
evaluator at the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research and
immersed himself in organizing workers unions and finally became the
Secretary General of the KMU. He had a very impressive personal
development of his dedication and concern for the workers.
We admire Ka Wilson for his dedication to the cause of the workers. He led
the way and showed how to love the workers and struggle for their rights.
This is his legacy to us. Whether we are in the Philippines or anywhere in
the almost 200 countries around the world where our kababayans have
forcibly gone to work, we can learn from the example of Ka Wilson. We can
also commit ourselves to the cause and concerns of the workers in our
place of work and look back at the conditions of the workers in our home
front. We all undergo similar exploitation and we have to struggle.
Ka Wilson has demonstrated to all of us how to live the principles taught
by the Kilusang Mayo Uno. Ka Wilson has shown the example of a principled
member of KMU by being an active member and by living out the objectives
of the KMU. The KMU is indeed fulfilling its goal of promoting the rights
and welfare of the workers as exemplified by Ka Wilson.
May Ka Wilson rest in peace. May his memory and legacy remain in our hearts.
Center for Philippine Concerns (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Pinay Women’s Organization of Quebec (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Filipino Workers Support Group (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
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