Suchart: All Pheu Thai policies will be implemented

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Suchart: All Pheu Thai policies will be implemented

Published: 18/07/2011 at 05:44 PM
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A key member of the Pheu Thai Party's economic team said all of the party's policies announced during the election campaign are viable and will be implemented from the beginning of the next fiscal year.

Suchart Thadathamrongvej, a former finance minister in the Somchai Wongsawat government, said this on Monday after reporting to the secretariat of the House of Representatives as a new MP.

He said the party was in the process of drafting the policy statement of the Pheu Thai-led government to be delivered to parliament and working out details to implement the policies publicised during campaigning and fixing timeframes for putting them into practice.

New laws and regulations might be needed to implement some of the policies.

On the completion of the draft policy statement, all parties in the coalition would be invited to meet so they could merge their policies into the main platform, Mr Suchart said.

Asked about the promised 300 baht per day minimum wage, Mr Suchart said it would certainly be implemented from Jan 1 next year after consultations with the tripartite Central Wage Committee.

After the policy statement, he would hold a workshop of employers and employees on this matter. The objective was to help the poor to have a better quality of life, he said.

Mr Suchart said it would not be necessary for the industrial sector to sacrifice financially. He had a plan to cope with any problems which might arise, but would rather not disclose it at this time.

As for the policy to distribute 800,000 tablet computer tablets, each costing about 5,000 baht, to Prathomsuksa 1 (grade 1) students, Mr Suchart said four billion baht would be needed to implement it.

Pheu Thai deputy spokesman Jirayu Huangsap (left) on July 18, 2011 accepts a letter from Thai Labour Solidarity Committee chairman Chalee Loysoong. The committee wants the incoming Pheu Thai government to raise the minimum wage to 300 baht a day nationwide within six months.

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geoffo
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Discussion 9 : 20/07/2011 at 07:24 PM9
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D5 Cleardawn, TS said several weeks ago the wage increase will be paid for by budget, bonds and investment. It is only for Thais' , only after the tax rate is adjusted ,and only from BKK and now Pattaya .

Please read the fine print. This is the Gov that brought in GTX scanners and who are going to bororw to fund this in the hope it pays off. Don't get your hopes up to high.
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Discussion 8 : 19/07/2011 at 11:55 AM8
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@Disc 5 - "Thaksin Thinks PT Does" sure says a lot about the honesty of the PT government, enough said. With the increase of wages, prices for locally produced goods will rise as well, hence their disposable income will barely change.

Increasing the wage to 300 baht is too big of a jump, many small and middle size businesses will close down. With the increase of LPG prices to almost double, many pottery and ceramic producers will go bankrupt as they need to keep their kilns running 24/7 and its very labor intensive to decorate the product. Handicraft companies will be in big trouble as well.

I think they need to increase the wage in small increment over a 2-3 year period.
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Discussion 7 : 19/07/2011 at 11:41 AM7
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Do Grade 1 students reallly need tablet PC? What a waste of our fund, they will end up playing games on it. What if it breaks? who is going to fix and replace it? at the cost of more tax payers money? Who is going to write the software and convert the material to electronic format? 4 billion can be used in better ways that will effect more students. Distrubuting free text books would do more good than giving them a tablet pc.
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Discussion 6 : 19/07/2011 at 01:11 AM6
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"labour rights, labour unions" Please, Khun Chalee Loysoong say that point louder and louder. Thai workers stands in dire need of a functioning workers union. Workers are highly exploited here because of lack of unity among them and fear of victimization. In the school where I work, teachers are left at the mercy of the employer who can hire and fire at his whims and caprises. The teachers in that particular school are not united to protect their common rights and better their lots such as demanding for wage increase based on the huge amount of oney that the school makes.
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Discussion 5 : 18/07/2011 at 11:42 PM5
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Good for Pheu Thai. They should stick to their policies - that is what they were elected to do.

They should not behave with the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the coup-appointed Abhisit government, who abandoned all their policy pledges as soon as the going got tough. Does anyone now remember the land-and-property tax Abhisit promised to introduce? Or the land rights for landless villages? Or the independent investigation he promised into the military's role in the "alleged" (and well-documented by foreign media) Rohingya mass-murders?

The sooner the 300 baht increase comes in, the better. For one thing, it will show the people that Pheu Thai are an honest government - something nobody here is used to. For another, it will give a massive boost to the local economy: Thai workers, for the first time ever, will have some disposable income to spend.
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Discussion 4 : 18/07/2011 at 10:56 PM4
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Pheu Thai is starting to come unglued at the seams and it has not even formed a government yet.
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Discussion 3 : 18/07/2011 at 10:42 PM3
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Hope springs eternal?
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Discussion 2 : 18/07/2011 at 10:15 PM2
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So what did the clone and fugitive mean when claiming only skilled staff in Bangkok and Phuket will get a raise?
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Discussion 1 : 18/07/2011 at 07:46 PM1
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So much for YS’s “Only I speak for the Party.”.
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