real wages

Php663 wage hike needed to reach Php1,207 average family living wage

May 4, 2024

A meaningful wage hike is urgent for nominal wages to keep up with the rising cost of living. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage corrects decades of injustice where workers create huge profits for employers but receive meager wages.

Capitalists are inflationary, not wage hikes for workers

April 5, 2024

COMMENTARY

Employers can afford big wage hikes. Instead of protecting profits, the government should be doing everything it can to raise wages which will be good for workers, their families and the economy.

IBON stresses to solons: An across-the-board minimum wage hike is urgent, just, doable

February 28, 2024

In a House deliberation on wage hike proposals, research group IBON executive director Sonny Africa stressed that there is no reason not to give any of the wage hikes currently proposed by different legislation.

Three straight quarters slowdown confirms economic decline

August 11, 2023

Growth slowing for three straight quarters confirms economic decline under the Marcos Jr administration. The economic rebound and momentarily fast growth from reopening, which was measured from the worst economic contraction in the country’s history, is over. The economy has returned to its trajectory of slowing growth that started even before the excessive pandemic lock […]

Falling real wages, more expensive food, as of June 2023

July 7, 2023

Prices keep rising in general but Filipinos’ purchasing power has net kept up. Raising wages and providing subsidies are doable – why have these not been ensured?