Saturday, December 29, 2018

Labor Yearender: Endo, TRAIN spur labor disputes, workers’ unity


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The unfulfilled promise to end contractualization and the runaway inflation due to the imposition of TRAIN led to an outbreak of labor disputes in 2018 and the forging of a historic unity among workers’ groups in the country. According to the latest data from the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB), there were 21% more notices of strikes from January to August this year compared to the same period last year. Of the nine actual strikes recorded, five of them involved issues of regularization of workers.

Spurred by the resurgence in workers’ militancy, the country’s rival labor groups finally came together in a joint mass action in the Labor Day commemoration this year. The coalition Nagkaisa, which comprise some 40 labor groups and institutions, joined forces with the Kilusang Mayo Uno in a massive May 1 march from Espana to Mendiola. The disparate labor groups once more came together, along with other social movements and civil society organizations, in the United People’s Action during the State of the Nation address of President Duterte. Formally coming together as Manggagawa Ayaw sa Diktadura, the rival labor organizations marched again as one to slam the threat of a new dictatorship during the commemoration of the declaration of martial law last September 21.

While statistics from the NCMB show that actual strikes were down from 15 to just 9 (January to August this year compared to last year), the government’s data is inaccurate. To cite just one example, it does not include the strike last May at the Dong Seung garments factory in the Cavite ecozone. The Dong Seung strike is the latest in a string of disputes and struggles at the country’s biggest ecozone in the last four years. As a result, a dialogue finally started this year between labor groups, the DOLE and the Philippine Ecozone Authority to guarantee respect for freedom of association.

As the latest NCMB data covered only August, it does not list the biggest strike this year. On September 28, workers of Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco in Marikina and Vigan went on strike for more than one month against mass layoff and job outsourcing.  Undoubtedly many of the disputes and majority of the actual strikes involve contractualization.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced in its yearend report that some 400,000 workers were regularized this year. If it were true, it is most welcome. Unfortunately the data is suspect as it has not been independently verified. The DOLE based its figures from reports by companies which obviously have an interest in bloating the numbers. It was also not reported if the workers were made regular in the principal companies or just in the manpower agencies.

What is undeniable is that the DOLE’s own compliance orders to regularize workers in the country’s biggest companies have not been implemented. Worse, it has led to mass termination of workers. Last October the DOLE NCR regional office released an order to regularize some 2,600 contractual workers in dozens of agencies used by Philippine Airlines and PAL Express. The order has been appealed by management and has not been complied with. A similar order early this year on the telco giant PLDT to regularize 7,300 endo employees was defied through the termination of service contracts with 39 contractors and thus the retrenchment of the workers.

In the face of a spike in prices, a wave of wage hikes were ordered by different regional wage boards in the country. The increases however were below the amount needed to recover the lost purchasing power of workers’ wages. To cite an example, the P25 hike in Metro Manila is short by 30% to make up for the P35.84 erosion in wages due to the average 7% inflation in the NCR. Partido Manggagawa’s own cost of living estimate for a family of five in Metro Manila is around P1,300 a day, more than double the new minimum wage of P537. This continues the pattern of worsening inequality—real wages are stagnating despite the 50% productivity growth from 2001 to 2016.

The coming new year under the neoliberal and bloody policies of the Duterte administration does not augur well for the working class. On the heap of the broken promises of ending endo and abolishing regional wages, the workers should develop their own power through unity and action. The challenge for the workers movement in 2019 is to build upon the resurgence of militancy and the forging of labor unity to make the popular clamor for change a reality.

December 29, 2018

Sunday, December 16, 2018

PM sides with riders and commuters in opposing double big plate and ban on Angkas

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Workers are both riders and commuters, thus, imposing rigid and prohibitive rules in the streets adds more burden to the working people and reinforces class discrimination in the guise of road safety and anti-crime campaign.

According to Partido Manggagawa (PM), the ban on Angkas operations, a popular motorcycle taxi denies thousands of working people a faster and safer mobility in NCR while the recently enacted law requiring double big plates for motorcycles is an added cost and poses safety concerns for riders whose vehicles were not designed for such anti-crime innovations.

"Banning Angkas and requiring double big plates on motorcycles will neither improve traffic conditions and road safety nor contain criminal activities of organized crime groups. Only organized communities, a disciplined police force, and a modern mass transport system can solve these age old public services deficit," said PM in a statement issued during the indignation activities conducted by thousands of motorcycle riders in Quezon City this morning.

The group said workers utilize motorcycles as the most economical and faster mode of bringing themselves to their workplaces or as the means of livelihood themselves as in the case of app-abled Angkas and other courier services.

"The government must adopt a flexible policy on this issue as rigid and discriminatory rules impacts heavily on workers," added PM.

At the same time it urges the riding community to help the government in ensuring road safety by raising the level of training and professionalism among riders in particular and by actively involving themselves in anti-crime, environment, emergency response and other social mobilizations at the community levels.

16 December 2018

Friday, November 30, 2018

Press Release: End to endo, wage boards top labor partylist demands on Bonifacio Day



The abolition of contractualization and the regional wage boards were the top demands of the labor partylist Partido Manggagawa (PM) in nationwide rallies to commemorate Bonifacio Day. Some one thousand workers, urban poor, community youth and college students joined the mobilization in Manila. Coordinated rallies were also held today in Cebu, Bacolod and Davao.

“If Gat Andres Bonifacio were alive today, he would no doubt be leading another revolution to defend workers against the onslaught of endo by greedy capitalists, the cheapening of wages by the regional wage boards and the loss of our sovereignty to both the US and China. To symbolize the fight, instead of ripping Spanish cedulas, Bonifacio would be tearing up the endo contracts and the wage orders,” stated Rene Magtubo, PM national chair.

PM together with allied groups Kilos Maralita, Umalab Ka, National Federation of Labor, Aguila (Association of General Unions, Institutions and Labor Associations) and PUP student group SPEAK assembled its contingents at Blumentritt, Espana early this morning. By 9:00 am, they moved a short distance to Welcome Rotonda to merge with other groups under the labor coalition Nagkaisa. Around 10:00 am, the several-thousand strong rally marched down Espana towards Morayta. There Nagkaisa held a program to issue its “workers’ challenge” to candidates in the coming elections.

PM is calling on Congress to pass the pending Security of Tenure bill that provides for strict regulation against contractualization and aims to make regular jobs the norm in employment relations. Likewise, the group is demanding for a reform of the wage setting mechanism and a return to a national minimum wage instead of the present regional wages.

Magtubo asserted that “Duterte promised to abolish endo the moment he becomes president. In a dialogue with labor groups, he also said that ‘provincial rates’ must be eliminated. Three years into his term, these remain broken promises. Instead of focusing on people’s concerns like wages, jobs and inflation, his administration aims to capture the Senate so it can railroad the shift to federalism through charter change even as it continues the bloody war on drugs and prepares to start a new, bloodier war against communist rebels.”

PM is participating in the coming elections for the partylist. The demand to end endo and abolish the regional wage boards are part of its platform of “Apat na Dapat.” The other demands include provision of decent housing for the poor, subsidy for sustainable agriculture by farmers, and social services for women and youth.

November 30, 2018

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Media Advisory: For Bonifacio Day, labor partylist to demand abolition of endo and wage boards

Media Advisory
November 30, 2018

Partido Manggagawa
Contact Wilson Fortaleza @ 09452182693

Labor partylist to demand abolition of endo and wage boards on Bonifacio Day rally today

What: Bonifacio Day workers rally led by labor partylist group Partido Manggagawa and allied groups Kilos Maralita, Umalab Ka, National Federation of Labor and Aguila (Association of General Unions, Institutions and Labor Associations)

When: Today, November 30
              Assembly at 8:00 am
              March to Welcome Rotonda at 9:00 am
              March to Morayta @ 10:00 am

Where: Assembly Petron gas station at Blumentritt Espana

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

MEDIA ADVISORY: PAGKILOS NG MGA KATUTUBO LABAN SA KALIWA DAM NA POPONDOHAN NG UTANG SA TSINA

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT                          UTANG SA TSINA, PAHIRAP SA MASA; KALIWA DAM, TUTULAN, LABANAN!

PAGKILOS NG MGA KATUTUBO LABAN SA KALIWA DAM NA POPONDOHAN NG UTANG SA TSINA

WHEN                          November 21, 2018 Wednesday | 09:00AM – 12:00PM
                       
WHERE                        Chinese Embassy
                                    330 Gil Puyat, Makati

PARTICIPANTS         Indigenous Peoples in South Sierra Madre (General Nakar, Quezon and Tanay, Rizal)

                                    Local Federations of Indigenous People’s Organizations
                 SUKATAN
                 SAGIBIN-LN
                                   
National organizations
·       Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahan Magsasaka (PAKISAMA)
·       Save Sierra Madre Network
·       Koalisyon Laban sa Centennial Dam
·       Kalipunan ng mga Kilusang Masa

BRIEF                         
Indigenous peoples and other support groups strongly oppose the signing of the bilateral loan agreement to fund the Kaliwa Dam Project, one of the major infrastructure projects under the “build, build, build” program of Duterte’s administration.
                        
The scheduled signing of contract between President Duterte and China President Xi Jinping manifests the manipulative motives of China and Duterte’s ignorance to the concerns and pleas of the affected stakeholders.


ORGANIZERS  Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahan Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), SUKATAN, SAGIBIN-LN, Save Sierra Madre Network, Koalisyon Laban sa Centennial Dam, Kalipunan ng mga Kilusang Masa

CONTACT/S                
 Melissa Alamo

Monday, November 12, 2018

Partido Manggagawa supports P500 subsidy, bats for national minimum wage


 

The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) declared its support for the proposal by the group ALU-TUCP for a P500 monthly food subsidy for minimum wage earners even as it called for the abolition of the regional wage boards.

Last Friday, the labor coalition Nagkaisa and the KMU held a joint protest at the Department of Labor and Employment main office in Intramuros in criticism of the recent P25 wage increase.

“The P500 subsidy is good as a short term relief but for a long-term alternative, we need to reform the wage fixing mechanism and replace wage regionalization with a national minimum wage indexed to inflation and productivity,” asserted Rene Magtubo, national chair of PM.

He stated that “As we call on organized labor to unite for the P500 subsidy, we further appeal for unity around the demand to abolish the regional wage boards.”

The P500 subsidy proposal came in the wake of the recent P25 wage increase for NCR workers. The salary hike was slammed by labor groups as too small to compensate for the erosion in workers’ wages due to inflation. PM’s cost of living estimate for a family of five in Metro Manila is around P1,300 a day.

PM argues that government and employers representatives have majority control of regional wage boards and they connive to fix wage cheap on the argument of capacity to pay. Magtubo explained that “Labor Sec. Bello himself asserted that pay increases are tempered by the criteria of capacity to pay. Why is it that when employers buy the labor power of workers, their capacity to pay is paramount but when workers buy their daily necessities, their capacity to buy is not considered? This is the double standard of capitalism!”

The group’s criticism is that there are about a hundred minimum wages in the country that are different not just across regions but even across cities and municipalities in industrial areas as Calabarzon and Central Luzon. “Wage differentials vary greatly. The NCR rate of P537 is almost double the ARMM rate of P280. Yet the cost of living is not significantly different across regions, cities and municipalities. What kind of system is this!,” Magtubo claimed. ###

Photos of the DOLE protest against the P25 wage hike can be accessed at PM’s FB page.

November 12, 2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Media Advisory: Labor groups protest vs measly P25 wage hike today

Media Advisory
November 9, 2018
Partido Manggagawa
Contact Wilson Fortaleza @ 09452182693

Labor groups protest vs measly P25 wage hike today

What: Labor groups to hold picket-protest

When: Today, November 9, 10:00 am

Where: DOLE Intramuros

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

Monday, November 5, 2018

P25 is alms not relief to overworked yet underpaid NCR workers


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DOLE Sec Bello announced this morning the P25 wage hike earlier leaked by ECOP as if it was a moment of glory for him. P25 is just alms not relief to overworked yet underpaid Filipino workers. P25 cannot compensate for the 7% runaway inflation in Metro Manila and real wage stagnation despite 50% productivity growth from 2001 to 2016.

The whole controversy about the NCR wage hike just proves that no matter how hard workers make a devotion to Santo Rodrigo, they will not be blessed with a sufficient wage order. The problem lies in the system of wage regionalization in which wage boards base their wage hikes on the capacity to pay of employers and not on the cost of living of workers.

P25 is short by 30% to make up for the P35.84 erosion in wages due to the 7% inflation in the NCR recorded in August this year. Partido Manggagawa’s own cost of living estimate for a family of five in Metro Manila is around P1,300 a day, more than double the new minimum wage of P537.

Even if the NCR wage board had ordered a P35.84 wage hike, it still means real wages are just frozen. But workers should partake of a just share in the fruits of production as mandated by the Constitution

Government and employers representatives control the majority of the regional wage boards and they connive to fix wage cheap on the argument of capacity to pay. Sec. Bello himself asserted today in the presscon, in response to questions, that wage hikes are tempered by the criteria of capacity to pay.

Why is it that when employers buy the labor power of workers, their capacity to pay is paramount but when workers buy their daily necessities, their capacity to buy is not considered? This is the double standard of capitalism!

This latest episode is a wakeup call for organized labor to unite around the call to abolish the wage boards and enact a new system of wage fixing that will implement the Constitutional mandate of a living wage for workers. The labor movement has shown the capacity to unite around the demand to end endo. It is high time to rally round the call for end wage regionalization.

November 5, 2018

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Cigarette firm lost P4.5B in production due to month-long strike--union


 
Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. has lost some P4.5 billion in production due to a month-long strike, according to the union. The Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Labor Union (PMFTCLU-NAFLU) has been on strike since September 28 and has maintained picketlines at the factories in Parang, Marikina and Vigan, Ilocos Sur.

“We estimate that in every shift, some P60 million worth of cigarettes have not been produced as scheduled. In three shifts per day, that is a total of P180 million. In the 25 lost production days since the start of the strike, that is about P4.5 billion,” declared Rey Almendras, PMFTCLU president.

Workers unrest is rising with a series of labor strikes in recent months and the Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco strike is the biggest yet. Another mediation meeting is scheduled by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on November 9 in Marikina near the picketline.

In contrast, NutriAsia announced in July that it had lost P200 million in income in the course of one month due to the strike at its Marilao plant.

In August the Lucio Tan Group announced a P3.63 billion total income for the first quarter of this year. Some P2.35B or 65% of the total income of the Lucio Tan Group came from its tobacco business.

“The Constitution mandates that workers receive their fair share of the fruits of production. But at PMFTC, retrenchment was the company’s reward for increased labor productivity and workers meeting key performance indicators,” argued Almendras.

PMFTCLU is alleging unfair labor practice over the closure and retrenchment. The union slammed the bad faith and deceit attending the so-called right-sizing plan of management. The group believes that union busting is the real agenda as the non-union sister factory in Sto. Tomas, Batangas just regularized 100 contractual employees. In contrast, the Marikina and Vigan plants are both unionized factories. Moreover, the Vigan plant is now being operated by a new entity but with contractual workers.

Photos of the strike can be accessed at PMFTCLU’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/zpipsamonte/

November 5, 2018

Duterte asked to endorse national minimum wage

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Amidst the controversy over the wage hike for Metro Manila workers, the labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) called on President Rodrigo Duterte to endorse a national minimum wage instead of the present system of regional salaries.

“In a dialogue with labor groups in 2017, the President denounced what he called ‘provincial wages’ and expressed preference for a nationwide minimum wage. Given the delay in the NCR wage order and further with inflation untamed, now is the time for President Duterte to turn mere words into decisive action,” asserted Wilson Fortaleza, PM spokesperson.

There is yet no wage order for workers in the NCR as the P25 hike was called unofficial by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello. The Employers Confederation of the Philippines said last Tuesday that the NCR wage board had agreed on a P25 salary increase for minimum wage earners.

The alleged P25 wage increase has already been slammed by labor groups as too small to compensate for the erosion in workers’ wages due to inflation. PM’s cost of living estimate for a family of five in Metro Manila is around P1,300 a day.

“We urge President Duterte to abolish regional wages as he had promised and endorse a national minimum wage based on a living wage. Since the President expressed disgust at provincial wages, he apparently knows that the policy of wage regionalization started in 1989 has led to the cheapening of labor. An evaluation of the policy performance of wage regionalization will show that it has consistently resulted in measly salary hikes that are below inflation rates and disregards economic growth” Fortaleza insisted.

He explained that “There are about a hundred minimum wages in the country that are different not just across regions but even across cities and municipalities in industrial areas as Calabarzon and Central Luzon. Wage differentials vary greatly. For example, the difference between the NCR rate of P512 and the ARMM rate of P280 is a whopping 45%. Yet the cost of living is not significantly different across regions, cities and municipalities. What kind of system is this!”

“A national minimum wage should not just be indexed to inflation but also to productivity. Real wages have not risen from 2001 to 2016 even as labor productivity has grown by 50% in that period. In other words, the pie has become bigger but workers have not received crumbs even. Instead employers have greedily taken all the increase in size of the pie. Workers have been denied their fair share in the fruits of production,” Fortaleza ended.

November 3, 2018

Thursday, November 1, 2018

P25 wage hike is a Halloween trick—labor group

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The P25 wage hike for Metro Manila workers was criticized by the labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) as a “Halloween trick that will result in a libing wage instead of a living wage.” The Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) announced that the NCR wage board had agreed on the amount although Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello did not confirm the alleged decision.

“Whether P20 or P25, the wage hike for NCR workers is an epic fail and falls below all expectations by workers,” insisted Wilson Fortaleza, spokesperson of PM. The group’s cost of living estimate for a family of five in Metro Manila is around P1,300 a day, more than double the current minimum wage of P512.

“First, P25 is short by 30% to make up for the P35.84 erosion in wages due to the 7% inflation in the NCR recorded in August this year. This means real wages or the amount of goods and services that workers can buy has fallen even with a wage hike,” Fortaleza explained.

He added that “Second, employers still owe workers for the stagnation in real wages despite 50% productivity growth from 2001 to 2016. Even if the NCR wage board had ordered a P35.84 wage hike, it still means real wages are just frozen. But workers should partake of a just share in the fruits of production as mandated by the Constitution.”

“A concrete example of this injustice is the plight of workers of the cigarette giant Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC). Workers met all their key performance indicators and yet 310 employees were retrenched in August. The Lucio Tan group of companies reported a total income of P 3.63B for the first quarter of this year and 65 percent or P 2.35B came from PMFTC. The company’s reward for increased labor productivity was mass layoff!,” Fortaleza said.

He averred that “Finally, President Duterte has broken his promise to abolish what he calls provincial wages. Instead his administration is reaffirming the disastrous policy of wage regionalization. Cost of living is not significantly different across regions and cities but wage differentials vary greatly and by as much as 45% (the difference between the NCR rate of P512 and the ARMM rate of P280). Like ending endo, abolition of regional wages lies in the heap of Duterte’s broken promises.”

November 1, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

DOLE to mediate today month-long strike at cigarette giant

Media Advisory
October 29, 2018
Partido Manggagawa
Contact Rey Almendras @ 09430776045
Rene Magtubo @ 09178532905

The DOLE is convening the management and union of the strikebound Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC) this morning. The mediation is set at 10:00 am today at DOLE Intramuros. Previous mediation meetings have been held in Marikina.

The month-long strike at the cigarette giant has cost the company around four billion in lost production. The strike started last September 28. 

Yesterday the workers held a family day with kids watching a film at the picketline and sharing loot bags from union and student supporters. Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo also held a mass yesterday at the picketline. 

Workers unrest is rising with a series of labor strikes in recent months and the strike at the leading cigarette firm is the biggest to date.  PMFTC workers have set up picketlines in its Marikina and Vigan factories. 

Photos of the family day and other strike activities can be accessed at PMFTCLU’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/zpipsamonte/

Friday, October 26, 2018

Employers still owe workers for productivity growth



As the NCR wage board conducts its last hearing today on the proposed wage hike, the labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM) asserted that employers still owe workers for the productivity growth of the past decade and a half.

“Employers keep on harping that inflation is merely temporary and so that a big wage hike is uncalled for. Yet they are utterly silent on the long-term stagnation of real wages despite the economic growth for the past 15 years,” insisted Rene Magtubo, PM national chair.

He added that “According to data from the Department of Finance, real wages have not risen from 2001 to 2016 even as labor productivity has grown by 50% in that period. In other words, the pie has become bigger but workers have not gotten even a crumbs. Instead employers have greedily taken all the increase in size of the pie. Workers have been denied their fair share in the fruits of production.”

“A concrete example of this is the plight of workers of the cigarette giant Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC). Workers met all their key performance indicators and yet 310 employees were retrenched in August. The Lucio Tan group of companies reported a total income of PhP 3.63B for the first quarter of this year and 65 percent or PhP 2.35B came from PMFTC. The company’s reward for increased labor productivity was mass layoff!,” Magtubo argued.

The mass layoff at PMFTC has led to the biggest strike yet this year. Tomorrow, the workers will on their first month at the picketlines.

“The wage hearing today is an utter sham. Lutong makaw na ang wage increase. Our fearless forecast is that the NCR wage board will order a measly P20 minimum wage hike. This is a foregone conclusion as the DOLE and ECOP have already revealed their preference for P20 in coins for the hardworking Filipino workers,” Magtubo averred.

He concluded that “P20 does not even compensate for the runaway inflation of 7% in the NCR which translates to an erosion of P35.84 in the minimum wage of P512. Much less, it cannot offset the productivity growth that has been denied workers since 2001.” 

October 26, 2018

Thursday, October 25, 2018

P20 wage hike won’t make a dent in P1,300 daily cost of living



A labor group has slammed the P20 wage offer by employers as “an insult to hard working Filipinos.” The Partido Manggagawa (PM) said that the proposed wage hike will not make a dent in group’s daily cost of living estimate of P1,300.

A cost of living survey by PM found that a family of five in the National Capital Region needs P1,300 daily or P39,000 monthly to live decently as of May.

PM chair Magtubo criticized the regional wage board hearings as a “moro-moro” as Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello and the Employers Confederation of the Philippines have already agreed on “a P20 alms to workers.” The regional wage boards are composed of three representatives from the government, two from employers and two from labor.

“Wage regionalization has been weaponized in the employers’ war to cheapen wages and increase profits. An evaluation of the policy performance of wage regionalization that started in 1989 will show that it has consistently resulted in measly salary hikes that are below inflation rates and disregards economic growth,” Magtubo explained.

In PM’s own study, P3,150 monthly are needed to buy daily 2.5 kilos of the cheapest commercial rice at P42. Of the P39,000 monthly budget, 44% is earmarked for food and 56% for non-food. Utilities like electricity, water and cooking gas make up 8%, house rent 15%, transportation expenses 11% and education needs 13% of the total budget.

“Our cost of living study is in fact an underestimation as it does not provide for leisure and recreation, savings or social security which should comprise 10% as a standard or for a house help which is a necessity if the government insists that both parents must work to sustain the family,” Magtubo averred.

He insisted that “The focus now is on worsening inflation that has eroded workers nominal wages. But hardly noticed is growing inequality due to the stagnation of real wages while productivity is booming. From 2001 to 2016, labor productivity grew by at least 50 percent, yet the real wages did not grow at all. Workers have been denied their fair share in the fruits of production.” 


Items

Volume/Cost
Daily
Cost
Monthly
Cost
%
share
Food & Beverages


17,446.50
44.33
rice
2.5kg/day x P42 (sinandomeng)
105
3,150

ulam & gulay
3 servings (P82/pax/day x 5 pax)
410
12,300

seasoning
2kg onion (P97/kilo),
1kg garlic (P110/kilo)
10.13
304

fruits
4kg  x P60 (banana)
8
240

cooking oil
2 liters x P106
7.07
212

sugar
2kg x P56.25
3.75
112.5

soy sauce
1 liter P42
1.40
42

vinegar
1 liter P34.50
1.15
34.50

fish sauce
1 liter P53
1.77
53

coffee
2 (100g) x P76.25
5.08
152.50

milk
3 (900g) x P282
28.20
846

Utilities


3,358
8.53
electricity
200kwh (P10.90/kwh)
72.67
2,180

water
20cu.m. (P23.95/cu.m)
15.97
479

LPG
1 cylinder
23.30
699

House rental


6,000
15.25

1 month rent
200
6,000

Toiletries


1,027.05
2.61
soap
6 bars (135g) x P40.50
8.10
243

shampoo
2 (180ml ) x P101.90
6.79
203.80

sanitary napkins
3 (packs of 8) x P42.75
4.28
128.25

toothpaste
2 (150ml) x P77.50
5.17
155

laundry soap
24 (70g pack) x P5.50
4.40
132

deodorant
2 (40ml) x P82.50
         5.50
165

Education


5,170.83
13.14
miscellaneous fees
3 pax x P750 = P2250/schoolyear
6.25
187.50

school allowance
100 x 2 pax & 50 x 1 pax/day x 22 days x 10 months = P55,000/yr

152.78

4583.33

theatre tickets
1 ticket x P200/grading x 4 periods x 3 pax/schoolyear = P2,400
6.67
200


school projects
2 subjects x P100
/grading x 4 periods x 3 pax = P2,400/schoolyear

6.67

200

Health


450
1.14
ascorbic acid
5 (1 tablet ascorbic acid generic) X P3
15
             450

Communications


1,500
3.81
phone or cellphone
at least P25/day load x 2
50
1,500

Transpo expenses


4,400
11.18
fare to and from work
2 pax x P100/day x 22days
146.67
4,400

Total

P1,311.77
P39,352.38


October 25, 2018