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| Men work in a construction site in Barangay Pag-asa in Quezon City. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ |
The group sought the President’s help a day after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) approved a P25- increase for minimum wage workers in the NCR.
The group said a P100 wage hike would raise the P512 daily minimum wage to P612, an amount that would enable workers and their families to cope with rising prices.
“In behalf of all poorly paid 4 million Metro Manila minimum wage workers and their families in Metro Manila who are suffering due to expensive cost of living brought by the astonishing inflation in the past 10 months, we are appealing to President Duterte’s kind-hearted ‘malasakit’ to please spare a portion of your presidential powers in favor of the working class by raising the recent ‘unofficial’ and measly P25 daily wage increase to at least P100 a day,” ALU-TUCP spokesman Alan Tanjusay said.
“Mr. President, workers and their families have been longing to taste the fruits of your ‘Tunay na Pagbabago’ (genuine change) for all Filipinos. Now is the time to make businesses’ profits and the country’s economic wealth to truly trickle down to troubled workers who also help built the country and businesses to thrive but were left behind by flawed policies and greedy businessmen,” he added.
The ALU-TUCP originally sought a P334 a day wage increase but settled for P100. The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) made a counter offer of P25.
The labor representatives in the seven-man tripartite wage board were outvoted by employers and government representatives in the last minute bargaining. - By WILLIAM DEPASUPIL, TMT
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