📷: National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers | FB
Today, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers joins workers across the country in the call for a P1,200 nationwide daily living wage for the private sector and a P33,000 monthly minimum wage for the public sector employees. These figures reflect the cost of living, the dignity of work, and the justice long denied to the very people who keep our society running.
This is not merely an economic appeal, but a question of justice. Each day that millions work without earning enough to live decently is another day the law is bent to serve profit over people.
We support the workers’ call to end contractualization, uphold the right to organize and strike, lower the cost of living, and ensure safety in the workplace. These are not privileges to be granted at the whim of employers or the state; these are basic rights that should have long been secured in any society that claims to be just.
But the crisis runs deeper. It is rooted in neoliberal orthodoxy, in the unquestioned partnership between state and capital, and in the shadow of foreign domination, most sharply expressed in the role of the United States in fueling wars and widening inequality across the globe.
Today, we march and stand in solidarity with workers in the struggle for justice, in the fight for dignity, and in the defense of hard-won rights.
Today, we echo the rallying cry of generations before us and affirm our place beside the working class in demanding social justice.
Walang karapatan kung walang pagkakaisa. Walang hustisya kung walang pakikibaka.
Magkaisa. Lumaban. Mangahas.
