The power struggle between our Board of Directors headed by Msgr. Zosimo Sañado and OIC-GM Jane Barrameda is on course for a steep cliff. All transactions had been put to a screeching halt. No more gasoline withdrawals, ditto the salaries of employees and the payments to all our power suppliers.
Naga City and its neighboring towns faces the imminent threat of being cut off with power supply by Aboitiz, the new owners of Tiwi. This aside our inability to respond to all electricity related service and maintenance job requests. It is forced vacation leave for all Casureco II employees.
Let me simplify the power struggle to the mis- and uninformed:
Mons Nono Sañado and his majority bloc wants OIC-GM Jane Barrameda out.
To do that, they must get NEA's appoval.
The courts and legal documents have stressed that NEA has absolute control over ECs.
NEA requires proof of misconducts and illegal actions by OIC Jane before her ouster.
Mons Nono and his group opines that to investigate the OIC-GM they must remove her first, so they install Mr. Rolly Pante as new OIC-GM.
NEA insists on the proof before installing a new OIC-GM.
Mons Nono and his group refuse to sign checks unless the name bearing the OIC-GM is Sir Rolly.
The employees still recognize OIC Jane in the absence of a black and white of NEA's approval of Sir Rolly's designation.
Stalemate.
Crushed in the middle of all this brouhaha? The employees.
This my friends is a classic example of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The effect - a collision course with no impact. Neither party wants to budge letting ego, power thirst, unwavering self-belief, vanity and misconstrued infallibility to tear up this institution.
The irony of this struggle is both parties claim that they are doing this in the best interest of the cooperative. Both claim to be the saviors of an institution that is fledgling. Isn't it laughable now that in their quest to correct the cooperative, they are doing more harm than good?
Casureco II is on the brink of losing labor support and strength with disgruntled employees. The threat of being in the dark is imminent if payables are not settled. Service is compromised with the inability to act on consumer complaints. Labor and civil cases loom to pile up if the salary delay persists. And amidst of it all, two leaders who insist on thier positions, in their goal of improving services to the consumers. Never have we been made out as idiots as much as this one.
I know now that the one who gives in is the real party that cares for the interest of the cooperative. It is just sad that the employees are hostages in this tug of war of power. Power that was as attractive as a beat up Volkswagen when the cooperative was knee deep in debt in 2006, but, now as beautiful as the shiny new Ferrari with the 80 million income for 2008.
See, it was always about the money, and the power, and the money. And more importantly, this is also about MY money.



