MALACAÑANG gave assurances it is now working to tame the soaring inflation rate, which has now reached 4.9 percent last month. The assurance, however, failed to allay the concerns of labor groups, who are now demanding for a new round of minimum wage hike to allow workers to cope with…
INSTEAD of holding their usual anti-government protest during Labor Day, most labor groups organized campaign sorties for the candidates they are backing in the 2022 polls during the said holiday. Members of the Nagkaisa labor coalition and Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) held a joint activities in Metro Manila on Sunday,…
Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) spokesperson Alan Tanjusay said they are preparing their wage petitions for Western and Eastern Visayas Regions, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Cagayan Valley Region. “We will start filing these wage petitions by next week,” Tanjusay said. TUCP on Tuesday filed two additional wage…
The country’s largest labor group is pushing for a P400 minimum wage increase for Central Luzon workers. Last Tuesday, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) filed a wage petition before the Regional Wages and Productivity Board-Region 3 to grant the said increase. If granted by the wage board, TUCP…
Rising cost of living prompted the country’s largest labor group to demand for a P388 daily minimum wage hike in Soccsksargen. On Monday, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) filed a new wage petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-Region 12 (RTWPB-Region 12) for the said pay…