The labor group
Partido Manggagawa slammed the decision of Pasig Regional Trial Court Judge Marie
Joyce Manongsong to grant the employers’ petition for a writ of preliminary
injunction against the implementation of the P85 wage order for minimum wage
earners in the National Capital Region.
“Judge Manongsong’s
forever TRO deprives at least a million minimum earners from benefiting from
the recent wage order. The forever TRO suspends the wage hike for workers and
gives capitalists a profit increase. Pinalawig ng preliminary injunction ang
pagKAKAMALi ni Manongsong na patawan ng TRO ang wage order, bagay na singlinaw
ng sikat ng araw ay di maaring gawin ayon sa Labor Code at Wage Rationalization
Act,” asserted Rene Magtubo.
Magtubo argued that
“If just two employers can afford to post a P10 billion bond then why can’t all
the NCR-based capitalists afford to pay the P60 first tranche? P10 billion is
enough to pay the P60 wage increase for 1.1 million minimum wage earners for a
total of 151 days or almost 6 working months. Capitalists have the capacity to
pay the wage hike. But they are so greedy and don’t want their profits reduced.”
Magtubo called the workers
in Metro Manila and the whole country to express their outrage at the forever
TRO against the wage hike. “Judges and employers, not just in NCR but in other
regions, can always invent legal arguments against the wage hike and for a profit
increase. Workers should wage an extra-legal battle to win a wage increase!”
Press Release
Partido Manggagawa
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