Philippine government implements two-tier wages

From the World Socialist Web Site (Nov 5): Philippine government implements two-tier wages

Philippine President Benigno Aquino is dismantling the minimum wage system and, in its stead, establishing a two-tier wage system. Along with the ongoing destruction of regular employment and the expansion of contractualization and underemployment, this is a major assault on the already dire living standards of Filipino workers.... Every section of the so-called left in the Philippines pushes the line of an across the board legislative P125 ($US3) wage hike. This includes the front organizations of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), such as Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Anakpawis, and the various rival organizations that broke from the CPP in the 1990s. The demand was first put forward in 2000 and has been the central demand of these organizations for the past 12 years. They have directed the working class in rallies, marches, petitions and strikes to appeal to the Philippine government to increase wages..... The only way forward for the Philippine working class, in the face of the escalating attack on wages and working conditions, is to break from all the various Maoist parties and pseudo-left organizations and to take up the struggle for socialist internationalism. This requires a serious study of the difficult and protracted struggle of the Trotskyist movement against all varieties of Stalinism, including Maoism, and the building of a Philippine section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/phil-n05.shtml