wage hike

in light with pgma's order to increase the daily wage pay of workers, a range from p30 to p50 preferably is my guess to be approved by the wage board. this is far to low to the p125 demanded by the kmu group and other groups, like bayan, anakpawis and gabriela. almost half to two-thirds sought by the moderate tucp.

i am just the same with almost all third class workers, but my viewpoints on the increase wage is different from them. i am not against wage increase, of course that will help compensate some expenses like daily fares, but i think p125 daily or p3,000 per month is quiet large enough for the company to give. and what will be the use of the p125 increase if this will also lead to mass retrenchment, mass lay-offs and much worst closure of the company.

there should be a meeting ends with how much will the company is going to increase wage to it's worker's not sacrificing on decreasing it's number of workforce and for the company to grow. of course a company should grow to accomodate other employees and to increase goods or services.

wage hike will also make an impact to small and medium enterprises. we have to consider also that this sudden stiff increases will hit this sme's.

my idea on this wage hike is to make the p125 increase staggered [spread over a period of time]. spreading p125 in 2 or 3 years staggered increase. we have to take note that this p125 wage hike they demand is about 4 years old. they have been pushing this since 2001. if they should have meet something since that time and making this increase spread over a period of time for 3 to 4 years, maybe we have almost p100 increase as of today.

there are really some things that we can't change drastically. increasing the salary to p125 per day suddenly will result something we don't expect to happen, and we know it will turn ugly on some of our friends and maybe on you. i hope it will not...