Mexico City.– In the joint commissions of Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies of the Senate, the opinion was unanimously approved that shields the minimum wage from inflation, so that its increases do not remain below the annual rate of sustained growth.
Backed by the opposition, the reform is part of Plan C promoted since February by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The benefit can be received by police officers, doctors, teachers and nurses, although it remains up in the air whether the measure reaches municipal police officers. “We are facing enormous confusion, to know if it reaches the municipal level,” warned PAN senator Ricardo Anaya.
For the PT, Gonzalo Yáñez celebrated that the scheme that prevailed in neoliberal governments has now been reversed: “Robin Hood in reverse: they gave to the rich and took from the poor…”
The Morena senators highlighted the fact that the increase in the minimum wage did not unleash fierce inflation. Saúl Monreal affirmed that the salary reform will guarantee that workers’ income improves their living conditions. Óscar Cantón Zetina, president of the Constitutional Points Commission, highlighted the fact that the constitutional provision was “a historic demand of the working class and a triumph for social justice.” For Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Luis Donaldo Colosio said he applauded “that salary dynamics are constitutionally protected so that never again will a worker see the fruit of his work unfairly diluted by factors that have nothing to do with his performance.” “With this reform,” he said, “we not only take care of those who take care of us, but we send a strong and clear message to the entire nation and the entire world that in Mexico social justice is also accompanied by prosperity and economic stability through labor and salary justice. For Morena, Malú Micher recalled that, with López Obrador’s administration, the minimum wage grew 110 percent, despite predictions that inflation would skyrocket. Senator Marko Cortés, leader of Acción Nacional, He said that he agreed with the reform, although he considered it necessary for it to be made “functional, so that, at the end of the day, people can have more in their purse to spend and it is enough for them.”
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