TUCP scores Laguesma on wage hike statements

THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has criticized Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma’s empty assurances of wage hikes, saying that the department approved an average of only P15 wage increase per year from 1989 to 2024.

“As workers grow restless with the end of contract jobs every six months and starvation wages, the TUCP trusts that in the hearing of the House Committee on Labor and Employment chaired by Representative Fidel Nograles on Wednesday, May 8th, the House of Representatives as the House of the People will say to the working class of this nation: You demanded a raise. You deserve a raise. And we will give you the long-overdue and much-deserved P150 legislated wage hike,” the TUCP said.

The President’s marching orders to the NWPC, chaired by no less than the Labor Secretary, manifests that he has been remiss in duty in upholding every Filipino worker’s right to a living wage estimated by the NWPC itself at P917 way back in 2008.

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