Antonio Tinio
Antonio "Tonchi" Luansing Tinio is a Filipino activist and former member of the House of Representatives (congressman), sitting as representative for ACT Teachers Partylist from the 15th to the 18th (current) Congress, serving as Assistant Minority Floor Leader in the 15th Congress.[1]
He was the national chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from 2002 to 2012.[2][3]
As legislator, he was the principal author of Republic Act 10653, which broadened the tax exemptions for the 13th month pay (mandatory year-end bonus amounting to a month of salary) of both public and private sector employees in the Philippines,[1] and the staunchest legislator-advocate of salary hikes for public school teachers.[4]
Before his stint in Congress, Tinio was a University of the Philippines Diliman (UP) professor from 1991 to 2010.[1][5] He is the son of playwright, movie actor, and director Rolando Tinio and theater actress Ella Luansing.
References
- ^ a b c "REP. ANTONIO L. TINIO". ACT Teachers Party-list. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "WHAT IS ACT-PHILIPPINES?". ACT Philippines. 2009-12-12. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "Leadership is a performing art". philstar.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "SSL hurdles final reading at lower house". cnn. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "Teachers commemorate World Teachers' Day with a protest action calling for higher salaries for teachers and rank-and-file government employees". Arkibongbayan. 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2016.