RAYUELA.
minimum wage convinced that no scrub scrubbed
The country faces, then, to a new attack on the purchasing power of wages, which has steadily weakened over the first decade of this century, a decline exceeding 50 percent. As far as minimum wages, they have lost 60 percent of their purchasing power so far of this administration.
E l last Saturday decided on a 4.1 percent increase minimum wages, which, from January 2011, will increase from 56.46 pesos to 59.80 in the geographical area A (2.34 dollars more than this year), from 55.84 to 58.10 pesos in the B (2.26 pesos increase) and from 54.47 to 56.75 in the C (increase of 2.28 pesos). The measure must necessarily be compared with the year's inflation rate, which fluctuates according to the estimates given released earlier this month by the Bank of Mexico, between 4.75 and 5.25. Some private analysts put the indicator between 4.38 and 4.40 percent, but the perception is that the price increase over 2010 was much higher. In any case, the rates of petrol, gas and electricity, as well as basic food products have experienced steady increases that raise questions as moderate rates of inflation as the aforementioned.
Labor officials have tried to minimize this fact by stating that the minimum wage is only a "reference" and that is miniscule percentage of citizens with a perception so low, that claim has been refuted by various voices from the academic and political. According to a recent study by the Faculty of Economics, UNAM, only in the rural sector is about 8.5 billion people surviving on minimum wage. But even assuming good to official figures, if it is checked against the 4.1 percent increase decided a couple of days The constitutional provision ("the general minimum wage must be sufficient to meet the normal requirements of a householder, in the material, social and cultural development and to provide compulsory education for children), must be accepted that the Commission National Minimum Wage has been doing for several years, annual simulation exercises, contrary to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Beyond the obvious unconstitutionality of the measure discussed, the continued offensive against the perceptions of workers is not good for anyone. It is not, of course, for employees, but also for the entrepreneurs themselves: it is relevant remember that a few days ago the Center for Private Sector Economic Studies said the need for significant wage increases in order to strengthen and boost the domestic market, thus, the prospects for economic recovery. As far as the government, the strategy of wage restraint and sacrifice of workers weakens the formal sector, incubates and deepens the social discontent, encouraged the illegality, crime and leads, thus, aggravating the already ungovernable suffered in various regions of the country.
should not be omitted, on the other hand, if the political-business group in power has maintained for so time the attack on the perceptions of workers, it has been possible because of the lack of a strong and consistent association structure, capable of defending wages. In other countries, where industrial plants are committed to its members, would be extremely high costs antisalarial policy as we are suffering here at home, however, something officially called "labor sector" justifies and validates the findings of the Commission National Minimum Wage. Certainly
therefore charrismo and the submission of official trade union groups for minimizing the political costs of the attacks on wages, but they carried out by a catastrophic increase in social cost, which translates into poverty, exclusion, informality, violence and crime.
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