Partido Manggagawa (PM) supports the
abolition of regional wage boards and the formation of a wage-fixing mechanism
that satisfies the constitutional mandate of granting workers a living wage.
We urged PDigong to certify to Congress
the House Bill 7787 filed by the Makabayan bloc as an urgent measure which will
pave the way for the realization of his commitment to labor groups in their
dialogues to abolish what he termed as “provincial rates” of wages.
We also call on all labor groups to
close ranks and form a stronger unity that will push for the demand to raise
wages and to abolish the regional wage boards by amending RA 6727 or the wage
rationalization act of 1989.
The continued existence of a mechanism
that fixes the minimum wage rates by regions under this law renders futile the
demand for higher wages to cope up with the sky-rocketing cost of living today
caused by the TRAIN law and global spike in prices of oil products. In the past
3 decades, the most that regional wages board can provide as increase in the
minimum wage is less than Php 1000 per month.
Finally, we call on all employers to
share the wealth that has been created by utilizing labor power of workers in
the production of goods and services that they sold in the market.
Indeed wage increases would affect
profit margins but it will not make employers poor. But on the other hand, a
wage increase raises the capacity of workers to uplift their well-being and at
the same time raises the demand for the production of goods and services, hence
will sustain economic activity and growth.
Simply put, increasing wages affects profit in the short term, but
sustains the economy that employers profit from in the long term.
May 29, 2018
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