Construction Workers Solidarity (CWS) is a political organization in the Philippines which seeks to represent the interests of

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s. Following the

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, CWS secured one seat through the party-list vote. The CWS was established in the 1990s.

Electoral history

2016 elections

In the 2016 national elections, CWS Party List was allowed by the

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(Comelec) to join the elections as an official party list. They were not able to come up with enough votes to secure a seat in the 2016 elections. In the 2019 mid-term elections, CWS Party List joined anew and was able to secure a congressional seat with former

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(DPWH) Undersecretary Romeo S. Momo as the representative of the

s sector.

2022 elections

CWS Party List filed its Certificate of Candidacy for the 2022 Philippine Elections. on October 5, 2021. The CWS has pledged to continue the implementation of the

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program of President

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's administration which has been overseen by DPWH secretary

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. CWS Party-list being part of 19th Congress got 412,333 total of votes in the 2022 election and was number 21 on the total vote getters for the party-list election of the Philippines. CWS Party-list is now represented by engineer and entrepreneur Edwin Gardiola at the House of Representatives.

2025 elections

Incumbent representative Edwin Gardiola is the first nominee of CWS for the 2025 election. However in February 2025, a disqualification case was filed against CWS by

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gubernatorial candidate Jay Manalo Ilagan, when Gardiola attended a giveaway event at the Barako Fest in

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. The three sedan cars given as prizes were allegedly sponsored by Gardiola, an act which the complainant believes to constitute as

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Work and advocacies

The Construction Workers Solidarity Party List has been involved in furthering the advocacies that involve the construction workers. CWS has provided various forms of assistance in the form of financial, medical transport services, displaced workers cash support, and vaccine provision against the

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, among others. CWS Party List has filed 120 bills that it has principally authored and co-authored 103 bills.

Electoral results

References

External links

* {{Philippine political parties Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines Labor parties in the Philippines