Truth Ires Shell Management

Sen. Chiz,

Mabuhay po tayo Sen. Chiz !

As I continue showing causes and motives behind Shell's management anger on me, let me discuss some truths that pained them most.

1. The Perfect Attendance Award Scheme is actually a Shell's management scam.
On this scheme which I called scam, the employee is advised not to avail any of his 15-days sick leave and 5-days personal/emergency leaves to become a Perfect Attendance Awardee. At year end, if the employee failed to comply with the directive will most likely to suffer job stagnation, and he who did will be given Perfect Attendance Award recognition and a G. E. flat iron as a token of appreciation and a promise of promotion but his 15-days sick leave and 5-days personal/emergency leaves shall be forfieted in favor of the Company.
The real cost of these sick, personal/emergency leaves if the employee avail of these leaves is not only 20 days but 50 days because the employee who availed of these 20 days will be paid 20 days. In his absence, another employee will be coming in as his replacement and shall be paid 20 days plus 10 days overtime rate. So, it summed up to 50 days.
In otherwords, an awardee is giving away 50 days worth of labor in exchange for a G.E. flat iron , an Award Certificate and an empty promise of promotion. Shell bludgeoned her employees into this inequity in no less than 30 long years.
Since my first year of employment, I've pleaded for sanity, fairness and justice be instituted in the system, and all throughout my years of employment and until the couple of years before I was terminated, I made a pledge not to have my hair cut until management would at at least give sanity to the Perfect Attendance Award Scheme. However, management wanted inequity preserved on her favor and opted to expel me out of the system.

2. The Collective Bargaining Agreement concluded before I was terminated is peppered with controversies and irregularities. I was pursuing, among others, the truth behind the missing minutes of 3 negotiation meetings wherein the economic provision of the CBA is discussed. The reason why the requirement of 2 union member (not an officer) to act as witnesses to the proceeding was waived. They conducted these discussions seemingly under the cover of darkness.

My inquiries continued as what are the underlying circumstances how the two key union officers received a company sponsored trip to Singapore and then to Thailand immediately after the conclusion of the contoversial CBA. Contriversies doubled further when the whole set of union officers were called to a sumptous party in a 5-star hotel in Makati few days after the closure of the CBA. As informations and evidences were being unearthed one by one perpetrators fear truth be gradually exposed further and suffer culpability. Thus, sought to stop the inquiry in any means available to them. They chose to boot me out of the refinery.

Till then Sen. Chiz ....

Sincerely yours,
Antonio L. Buensuceso
(Petitioner)

Personal Grudges Against Me Exposed

Dear Sen. Chiz Escudero,

Mabuhay po tayo !

Eto po ay ang patuloy kong pagpapaliwanag ng aking kaso laban sa Shell na nasa Korte Suprema na sa kasalukuyan : GR No. 183273 Antonio Buensuceso vs. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation / Rico Bersamin .
This all stemmed from the personal grudges against me of my employer as manifested by his consequential acts or ommissions on the following incidents:

Management even extend his grudges down to my son.

1. My son, a Shell scholar from high school to college (scholarship granted after passing competetive examinations) . He graduated from DLSU, Taft Ave. Manila and not was not recognized by Shell management nor given at least a word of congratulations when he got first place in the April 2002 Electronics and Communications Engineering Board Exams. The Bauan Municipal Council had conducted a torch parade for him and it was a day of celebration of the "common folks" in the refinery but Shell management acted as if they did not know about it.

Likewise what Management did to my relative.

2. Withdrawal of payment of Performance Related Bonus to Ritchie Coronel, a resignee and had moved to the USA. His pay for his PRB was already in the payroll but when I was about to receive that payment on his behalf, management witheld the payment upon knowing that Ritchie Coronel is my relative.

Deliberate denial of my right to due process.

3. At the last Collective Bargaining Agreement before I was terminated, I learned that the maximum rate of increase was given to employees of a certain department on account of their long 16 years of service, not on account of their position which is supposed to be of a lesser rate. Nevertheless, they were given the maximum rate of increase, 10%. So, just like them I should be given the maximum rate of increase on account of my even longer years of service, 24 years. Employees on that department are actually on the same wage level structure as myself, thus, I believed that the same treatment should be applied to me.
I filed a petition for wage adjustment invoking the same principle applied to the mentioned department but my petition was never given a chance to be heard and was deliberately ignored inspite of my persistent follow-up by the management in collusion with other members of the Labor Management Council on that time. Hence, my right to due process is deliberately denied.

Management imputed upon me worst humiliation in my life.

4. With the help of management supervisors, who have no choice but to follow management instructions, management impugned upon my person the gravest humiliation in my life wherein they rated me the poorest work performer among all 130 operators. I was humiliated in the face of my colleages, friends and family and the whole wide world who happened to read about the "ranking" documents that they have made published. With that stigma they maliciously attached to my reputation, how could I find another gainful employment using the same job experience. Management knew fully well that I can not defend myself in that ranking process because if I did defend myself it would mean participation in the ranking exercise and thereby giving the redundancy program the cloak of legality which they want me to unwiitingly admit. So, I declined to participate. But I contested that the redundancy program is illegal and since the ranking exercise is brought about by an illegal endeavor, ergo, it is illegal as well.

These acts and ommissions, among others, by the management clearly showed personal ill-will motives against me, extended down to my son and relative. These incidents devastatingly annihiliated me as a person, and a worker. Please, Sen. Chiz, help me....

Sincerely yours,

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.
(Petitioner)