‘The Ranis Report and Blas Ople at Labor’(Continued)(Part of the paper I am preparing in connection with the 50 year review of economic policy at the UP School of Economics.) The dominant player on labor issues during the Marcos years was Blas Ople, who became Labor secretary in 1967 during the president’s second term in office. A UN report by experts on labor and employment could do a better job in educating a labor secretary. The Ranis Report. Local labor unions strongly lobbied to get the study to support increasing the minimum wage to raise labor income and welfare.
