Workers to picket NCR wage board,
National
Wages and Productivity Commission
WHAT: Workers rally to call for abolition of wage board,
NWPC
WHEN: Today, April
29 (Monday), 10:00 am
WHERE: Dy International
Building , Gen. Malvar cor. San Marcelino
Sts., Malate Manila
DETAILS: PM is denouncing the NWPC and NCR wage board for being
inutile and instruments of the wage freeze policy. The NWPC’s last cost of
living estimate of P917 was still in 2008 and is outdated in the face of PM’s
own study which reveals the a working class family’s daily expenses is now at
P1,217. The cost of living estimate is therefore is almost three times the
current minimum wage of P456 mandated by the NCR wage board.
The picket is also a buildup
activity for the coming Labor Day commemoration. The call for a legislated wage
hike will be one of the highlights of the big May Day rally. On the eve of
Labor Day, PM will hold an overnight vigil of several hundred workers and poor
at Mendiola to press for its demands against contractualization and high
prices. ###
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