....A recent consultation of the ILO with the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) recommended...that employers should encourage and support those working in the BPOs/call centers and ecozones to unionize, a proposal immediately turned down by Edgardo Lacson, president of ECOP....According to Lacson...employers cannot be the ones pushing workers to form unions...the country’s Labor Code protects for workers. He added that in the past 20 years, the country has been experiencing industrial peace...One of the resolutions to be submitted to President Aquino at the end of the National Conference of Employers today is a commitment by ECOP “to strengthen social dialogue with responsible trade unions in tandem with government in addressing issues of mutual concern particularly in securing an equitable balance of rights and obligations between employers and workers arising from law and policy"...