[APWSLMembers 104] FW: On Arroyo's recent pronouncements for a wage hike:"Just do it!" - KMU

[parat Nanakhorn]

>From: Kilusang Mayo Uno <kmuid at tri-isys.com>
>To: Kilusang Mayo Uno <kmuid at tri-isys.com>
>Subject: On Arroyo's recent pronouncements for a wage hike:"Just do  it!" - 
>KMU
>Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:06:39 +0800
>
>KMU PRESS RELEASE
>November 3, 2005
>
>On Arroyo's recent pronouncements for a wage hike:"Just do it!" - KMU
>
>"No more sweet talk, just do it," was the reaction of Joel Maglunsod,
>Secretary-General of Kilusang Mayo Uno, to the recent press release of
>Arroyo on hiking wages for workers.  According to Maglunsod, even
>without the E-VAT, workers have long deserved a P125 wage increase.
>
>Maglunsod clarified that workers have been demanding a P125
>across-the-board wage increase for so many years now and are waiting
>for the bill in Congress to pass into law.
>
>"Given the damaging effects of EVAT on our livelihood, workers need
>additional income through wage hikes. The costs of products increased
>tremendously. Our daily expenses are shooting up even without the
>latest tax hike. Simply put, costs are higher than we actually earn.
>The average minimum wage of P275 in National Capital Region is crumbs
>compared to the actual daily cost of living now amounting to P681,"
>added Maglunsod.
>
>Maglunsod promised to fight "tooth and nail" for the P125 bill in
>Congress.  Workers will troop to Congress as it resumes session on
>November 7 to ask solons to approve the legislated wage hike bill
>still pending at the House of Representatives.
>
>"But since we see a long fight ahead of us, the least we expect to
>receive this year is our well-deserved 13th month pay and Christmas
>Bonus," said Maglunsod.  The KMU will setup a monitoring center to
>check those firms for their non-payment of the 13th month pay and
>Christmas Bonus and file corresponding cases against those non-paying
>firms.
>
>But the KMU is quick to clarify that they remain skeptical on Arroyo's
>support for a wage hike.  "Union leaders are being killed left and
>right.  Workers' rights are being repressed and this speaks well of how
>Arroyo really treats the Filipino workers.  Arroyo is a pathological
>liar.  She is capable of saying anything and doing anything just to
>save her hide and stay in Malacañang," ended Maglunsod.  ###
>

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