BACOLOD CITY—A LABOR REPRESENTATIVE OF the Western Visayas Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) expressed disgust over the management representatives’ offer of a P10 increase in daily wages.
Wennie Sancho said the management representatives in the board made the offer during the wage board meeting held at the Stakeholders Consultation Forum of the National Wages and Productivity Commission held in Cebu City on Monday.
The Western Visayas wage board meeting was held to take advantage of the presence of all its members so they could deliberate on a petition filed by the Trade Union of Filipino Workers for a P50 wage hike in Western Visayas.
The government representatives on the wage board also said during that meeting it shouldn’t be the outgoing president who should increase wages because it wouldn’t look good, Sancho said.
He said the statements from the government representative in the board appeared be a convenient excuse for a wage-freeze policy, he added.
Sancho, along with labor representative Hernani Braza, walked out of the Monday meeting in protest.
“The management has no conscience as shown by its offer of only P10 in wage increase, which was an amount that one would give street beggars,” according to Sancho.
“The workers are not beggars. They work to keep the economy going and should be justly compensated,” he said.
Sancho called the wage board proceedings a farce, adding that he was calling for the wage board’s abolition because it did not serve the interest of the workers but only that of management and government.
“The RTWPB was created to divide and rule at the workers’ expense. I am calling for the decision on the wage hike petitions to be handed back to Congress,” Sancho said.
He said the Labor Day on Saturday would be a sad one for labor but this would not deter them from continuing the struggle for workers’ emancipation.
Sancho said the Negros Labor Coalition would hold a forum on Saturday and a series of rallies to manifest their indignation against what he said was the collaboration of the government and the management against the workers.
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Wennie Sancho said the management representatives in the board made the offer during the wage board meeting held at the Stakeholders Consultation Forum of the National Wages and Productivity Commission held in Cebu City on Monday.
The Western Visayas wage board meeting was held to take advantage of the presence of all its members so they could deliberate on a petition filed by the Trade Union of Filipino Workers for a P50 wage hike in Western Visayas.
The government representatives on the wage board also said during that meeting it shouldn’t be the outgoing president who should increase wages because it wouldn’t look good, Sancho said.
He said the statements from the government representative in the board appeared be a convenient excuse for a wage-freeze policy, he added.
Sancho, along with labor representative Hernani Braza, walked out of the Monday meeting in protest.
“The management has no conscience as shown by its offer of only P10 in wage increase, which was an amount that one would give street beggars,” according to Sancho.
“The workers are not beggars. They work to keep the economy going and should be justly compensated,” he said.
Sancho called the wage board proceedings a farce, adding that he was calling for the wage board’s abolition because it did not serve the interest of the workers but only that of management and government.
“The RTWPB was created to divide and rule at the workers’ expense. I am calling for the decision on the wage hike petitions to be handed back to Congress,” Sancho said.
He said the Labor Day on Saturday would be a sad one for labor but this would not deter them from continuing the struggle for workers’ emancipation.
Sancho said the Negros Labor Coalition would hold a forum on Saturday and a series of rallies to manifest their indignation against what he said was the collaboration of the government and the management against the workers.
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