MAKALAYA, is an altenative women workers organization specifically aims to

- increase unionists' awareness in gender issues and concerns;
- popularize and advocate women issues at the local, industry, national and international levels;
- empower women workers to strengthen the family as a basic unit of society and the labor movement as a progressive force in the Philippines;
- organize women workers and assume active leadership role within the union structure and integrate women concerns in union colective bargaining agreements, programs and activities;
- mobilize women workers to protect and fight for their rights as a distinct group of society; and
- foster unity and solidarity among women, particularly in the Philippines.