How to increase wages in a country where companies have carried out mass personnel reductions and cost cuttings in order to just stay in business? That is the dilemma.
But the issue could be political and a dirty trick played on the sustainability of the incoming Fernandez administration, writes the news commentator of page two Que Se Dice column in Hoy newspaper. Gil comments today on statements made by the soon-to-be-elected new president of the Senate Andres Bautista, a man known to be a strong supporter of President Mejia and the PPH faction of the PRD. Bautista has become a strong advocate for legislation that would increase wages across the board. ?Is the astute senator from Moca playing at demagoguery,? asks the commentator. Meanwhile, the writer points out that the recent statements of the next president of the Senate should be registered amongst the list of bad omens.