José Manuel Díaz addressed the discussion for the minimum wage in Chile and asked the Executive – in line with the historical demands of the CUT – “to approach 500 thousand pesos”, since “it is a social demand, of necessity, today in quarantine”.
According to Cooperative slogan, the leader, who topped the Socialist Party’s (PS) winning list in the internal elections of the United Workers’ Central (CUT), also pushed the Senate, who “we tell to also tell the Government that they will not accept a last-minute proposal, i.e. they approve it or there is no readjustment, that this is the blackmail we suffer every year with the minimum wage.”
Diaz explained that “in the discussion of minimum income we are generated a bottleneck at the end, the whole discussion arrives for the last hour.”
It should be noted that a double mis-transplant suffered by the Government with its proposal for a minimum wage, following the rejection this week of the Finance Committee of the House of Members and Members of the guaranum raised by the Executive, which adds to the refusal of the Labour Committee to legislate.
The lower house approved the draft adjustment to the minimum wage, but left it without a amount to force the government to improve its proposal.
