BANGKOK, June 25 (TNA) – More than 200 labourers on Thursday gathered at the Royal Plaza in Bangkok, demanding the government of Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha to increase the daily minimum wage to 360 from 300 baht nationwide.
The blue-collar workers, all of them are either members of the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee or the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation, demanded the government to increase the daily minimum wage to 360 baht nationwide and also opposed the Labour Ministry to float the current daily minimum wage at 300 baht.
Wilaiwan Sae Tia, chairwoman of Thai Labour Solidarity Committee, said the Labour Ministry mid this month announced that it would float the labour minimum wage which was not fair because the cost of living keeps on rising while labourers in provinces which do not have strong bargaining power would receive unfair wages.
Mrs. Wilaiwan said while civil servants and state enterprise employees had received increased in their salaries, the labourers received nothing although the cost of living had risen in the past few years.
The 300- baht – minimum wage was enforced nationwide by the previous government of Yingluck Shinawatra administration almost three years ago. (TNA)
