Antonio Tinio

Antonio Tinio

Antonio "Tonchi" Tinio is a Filipino activist and member of the House of Representatives (congressman), sitting as representative of ACT Teachers Partylist from the 15th to the 17th (current) Congress, serving as Assistant Minority Floor Leader in the 15th Congress.He was the national chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from 2002 to 2012.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, and the staunchest legislator-advocate of salary hikes for public school teachers.Before his stint in Congress, Tinio was a University of the Philippines Diliman (UP) professor from 1991-2010. He is the son of playwright Rolando Tinio and theater actress Ella Luansing.

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