Filmore Dalisay, former chairperson of the PLDT Employees Credit Cooperative, director of the Metro South Cooperative Bank, and chairperson of the United Cooperative Movement (UCM), passed away early this month due to lung cancer. He was 46.
He was coop leader who lived by his principles.
When the Cooperative Development Authority tried to shove the iniquitous Memorandum of Rules and Regulations for Savings and Credit Cooperatives (MORR) down the collective throats of cooperatives nationwide despite having no solid legislative foundation, he was among the first to stand up against it. When UCM organized a Metro-manila-wide mobilization against MORR, he convinced me to emcee the event. I told him, I don’t speak at rallies. “I was a unionist”, he insisted. I can do it. In other words, he left me with no other choice.
He stood up for the rights of the cooperative movement. This is how I choose to remember him. The fight will go on. He left us no choice but to fight.
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