Dr. Cicero Calderon is the first Director of the Labor Education Center of the University of the Philippines founded in 1954. The Center was later renamed Asian Labor Education Center (ALEC) and now School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR).

1. Dr. Cicero D. Calderon
Director, UP LEC
1954 – 1958
Herran, Manila

2. Cicero D. Calderon
 A native of Candon, Ilocos Sur, he
studied at Vanderbilt University in
Tennessee, USA in 1950 as a
Methodist Church scholar.
 He later enrolled at the Vanderbilt
University Law School.

3. A union Organizer
 With a Master's degree in Law from
Yale University, Calderon organized
taxi drivers and other workers in the
Philippines from 1952 to 1954. Aside
from union organizing, he negotiated
collective agreements and supported
strikes.

4. Director of UP LEC
 The Philippine-US Agreement implemented
a Labor Education Center Project at the
University of the Philippines with Calderon
serving as Director in April 1954.
 He was assisted by four American advisers
who had experience in labor education in
the US. The UP Labor Education Center
(LEC) conducted union leadership training
courses in various parts of the Philippines
and a two-month residential program for
selected labor leaders in Manila.

5. Advisory Staff
Dr. Thomas Posey
Acting Director
Mr. Sol Davison Mr. David Levintow
Senior Advisor Advisor

6. Government delegate
to the ILO
 In 1955, Dr. Calderon was elected
Secretary-General of the First Labor-
Management Congress. He
represented the Philippine government
as a delegate to the 38th session of
the International Labor Organization at
Geneva, Switzerland.

7. Doctorate from Yale University
 In 1956, the Yale Law School awarded
Calderon a Doctor of Juridical
Science. His doctoral thesis was titled
From Compulsory Arbitration to
Collective Bargaining: The
Development of Labor Policy in the
Philippines.

8. A voluntary arbitrator
 As a voluntary arbitrator, Dr. Calderon
promoted voluntary arbitration in the
settling labor disputes instead of the
more lengthy compulsory arbitration.

9. University President and
ConCon Delegate
 Dr. Calderon became the second
Filipino President of Silliman University
in Dumaguete City.
 He became a Delegate for the
Constitutional Convention in 1971
where he served as the Committee on
Labor Chairperson.

10. An ILO Adviser
 In 1973, Dr. Calderon was the regional
adviser on Workers' Population Education of
the International Labor Organization
regional office in Bangkok, Thailand;
regional adviser on Labor Relations for Asia
and the South Pacific until he retired in
1982; and the senior adviser to the ASEAN
Program on Industrial Relations for
Development from 1984-1989.

11. President of PAVA
 Organized the Philippine Association
on Voluntary Arbitration (PAVA) in
Cebu City in 1990 and became
President for three terms until 1996.
He was voted president emeritus
thereafter.

12. A Preacher
 Dr. Calderon served as Elder of the
Silliman University Church and later,
chairperson of the Church Council
from 1991 until 2001.

13. The Original UP-LEC Staff
1954