A salary increase, the group said, should adhere to social justice tenet of providing workers with living wages.
‘Biased’ SSL should not be basis for pay hike – gov’t workers
Tags: national minimum wage
Supervening condition
By DEE AYROSO
Labor Day protest blasts ‘worst unemployment, tyranny under Duterte’
“We have the worst hunger, unemployment, killings and when we protest and organize we are called ‘criminals.’”
A slice of life of Filipino women workers
“Even a salary of P36,000 is not enough. We have to borrow money to make ends meet. At times, we even have to pawn our ATMs (to loan sharks). My mere daily transportation cost is already pegged at P4,000. How could they dare tell us that about P10,000 is enough?”
Progressive solons, workers push for nat’l minimum wage
“Truth be told, the wages of our workers have long been stunted and its purchasing power gravely diminished.”
All systems go for May 1 Labor Day protests
“Workers will push for their demands for the junking of contractualization and the implementation of a National Minimum Wage in the amount of P750, amidst their worsening hunger and poverty.”
APEC’s policy on unfair wage hike revealed in SSL 2015 — AWU
‘Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit will only further impose a more inhumane policy on wages and salaries of workers, employees and even professionals in all sectors.’