By DEE AYROSO
Supervening condition
Tags: P125 wage hike
‘ECOP’s Dee too greedy, and that’s just one of his problems’ – KMU
“Dee is sticking with their lie that increasing wages would result in job losses while denying the fact that a significant wage hike, through the National Minimum Wage of P750, would only be a 30 percent decrease in their profits as per independent think-tank IBON Foundation’s research. This still leaves them with 70 percent of clean profits to pocket.”
Labor supports Sen. Sotto’s 14th month pay bill
It is not wages that make doing business difficult for small businessmen, but high power and water rates, trade liberalization and smuggling, and taxes to the government and kickbacks by government officials.” – KMU
Labor decry ‘kaning baboy’ wage hike
KMU and Ibon research group said the P10 ($0.22) wage hike approved in Metro Manila is puny compared to what the workers’ families need to cope with price hikes; to what the wage needs to regain after decades-long erosion; and compared to the growth in labor productivity.
Labor dept, Aquino, blamed for employer’s hostility to unions, wage hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Capitalists’ profits have steadily increased over the years because wages have largely been frozen and contractual employment has been assiduously promoted.” – KPMM
‘Last, meager wage hike kills, buries minimum wage’
By MARYA SALAMAT
From now on, the KMU warned, the government will freeze minimum wages via its new wage system.
Aquino urged to stop introducing another wage freeze scheme
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Under the new wage system, companies get more freedom to tinker with workers’ wages in the guise of raising productivity levels.” – EILER
Bishop Tagle’s Labor Day statement ‘music to workers’ ears’
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On Labor Day, workers take Aquino to task for pushing working people deeper into poverty
By MARYA SALAMAT
Aquino has granted only “measly wage hikes, promoted contractualization even more, made demolitions of urban poor communities more brutal, and colluded with the oil cartel.” – KMU
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Workers press DOLE anew to support P125 wage hike
Workers press DOLE anew to support P125 wage hike (Photo by Melvin Pollero)
Workers hail legislators’ forum on wage hike
Reposted by MANILA — Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed today a forum of legislators in the House of Representatives which takled the need for and prospects of a legislated wage hike, saying the increasing prices of basic goods and services warrant such a measure. The legislators’ forum was organized by the HOR Labor Committee…