MANILA — Local businesses are in a position to grant wage hikes since workers have been producing more in the last seven years, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
According to IBON research head Sonny Africa, labor productivity or the ratio of national output to employment, has been rising for the last decade. Between 1999 and 2006, labor productivity has increased by 56.3% in nominal terms and 13.1% in real terms.
DAVAO CITY — Anakpawis Party-list challenged today Congress to lobby in Malaca?ang the immediate approval of pending House Wage Bill for the soonest implementation of Filipino workers? increase in their minimum wage.
Editha ?Inday Duterte, Anakpawis regional spokesperson, expressed the worries of workers after Malaca?ang shelved the bill to consider the protest of business sector.
The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) reiterated its all out support for the call of its allied organization Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) for the immediate P125 across the board wage increase because it will have a truly positive impact not just for workers but for the whole Philippine economy as well.
MANILA — ?Malaca?ang and the legislators seem to think that the people?s demand for a wage hike merely trivial. Their vacillating stand regarding this very crucial issue is infuriating for the people who have to survive on barely decent salaries.?
Such was the criticism of GABRIELA Secretary General Emmi De Jesus who slammed the Palace for its plan to veto the wage hike bill. ?This administration obviously does not have the interest of the people in its priority list. And yet since the start of the year, the Palace has been making promises that the people can now reap economic benefits. Or are those promises merely press releases??
DAVAO CITY — “Unlike Mrs. Gloria Arroyo, the Filipino women have already gone beyond budgeting insufficient income way below the daily cost of living of the common Filipino households.”
Luzviminda Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) National Chairperson, expressed this as she condemns Malaca?ang’s support to the House of Representatives in withholding the 125 Wage Increase Bill or House Bill 345.