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Hopefully, by June. Arroyo, with (from left) Central Luzon labor director Natanniel Lacambra and Roque, attending wage board meeting in Angeles City.
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Workers press 'GMA,
resign' call
Demand P125 pay hike, tax
exemption
BY GERARD NAVAL
WHILE lacking the usual heated and sometimes
physical confrontation between labor protesters and policemen,
the traditional Labor Day rallies yesterday were marked with the
same call - 'Gloria, resign!'
The workers also called for a P125
across-the-board increase in wages and the scrapping of the
value-added tax.
At the Don Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola)
bridge near Malacañang, 2,000 members of the Manila Police
District, in a surprise move, left their riot shields on the
other side of the barricades to head off a confrontation with
the protesters. They confined themselves to the sidelines.
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Gov't men get 10% increase BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
PRESIDENT Arroyo yesterday signed an
executive order granting a 10 percent wage hike for government
employees starting July 1.
The increase would be sourced from the P41
billion allocation for "Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund"
in the 2008 national budget.
The wage hike in the basic pay of 898,849
national government employees will cost P9.216 billion. For the
277,905 soldiers, policemen, firemen, jail guards, and Coast
Guard personnel, the increase will amount to P2.844 billion for
six months.
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Cayetano: Palace should
hold the bubbly on ZTE
BY DENNIS GADIL
SEN. Alan Peter Cayetano, chair of the Blue
Ribbon committee, yesterday said it is still premature for
Malacañang "to jump for joy" over the perceived acquittal of
President Arroyo in the ZTE broadband scandal.
"On the contrary, all evidence, all the trail
leads to Malacañang," Cayetano said in a radio interview.
He also denied clearing the President, saying
the Senate's ZTE inquiry is not yet completed and would resume
when a new witness emerges.
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