Rallies and strikes on November 16:
Intensifying struggle for a P125 wage increase

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

Big mass actions, industrial and transport strikes led by militant workers� organizations will be launched on November 16 to advance labor�s just demand for a P125 increase in the minimum daily wage. This is indicative of the broadening struggle of workers amid the worsening living conditions of the toiling masses and their continuing enslavement by the USEstrada regime.

On October 13, more than 15,000 demonstrated in Mendiola to voice the demands of workers. A few days later, the US-Estrada regime and regional wage boards ordered increases of P20-25 in the workers� minimum daily wage. On October 15, an increase of P25.50 was announced for Metro Manila, a paltry sum compared to the additional amount needed by workers to enable them to cope with the skyrocketing prices of their daily needs.

It is correct for workers to reject this token wage increase. Workers� living conditions have taken a nosedive in past years due to the worsening economic crisis. Thus, a significant increase in wages is necessary to suitably uplift the workers� living conditions from the quagmire of poverty.

To effectively assert this demand, the workers and the Filipino people should undertake collective and militant actions in the face of the US-Estrada regime�s intransigence in enforcing its policy of keeping workers� wages low.

00 September 1999
English Edition

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