TO:	The Secretary of Labor The President, TUCF The President, ECOP

You are hereby directed to devise a scheme which would promote  systematically and on a sustained basis the establishment of an adequate machinery for positive cooperation between labor and management at appropriate levels of the  enterprise.  Such machinery should focus on matters of common interest to workers and employers but are not usually the subject of collective bargaining.  The purpose is to broaden the base of labor-management cooperation and make them true partners in the pursuit of justice-based development.

You are further directed to submit to me, from time to time progress report on the implementation of the scheme, the benefits realized, the obstacles encountered and the over-all effect of the scheme in the labor relations system.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of May, 1978.