CWI - Is the wage indicator raising the wages?

The meeting discussed the impact of the wage indicators and its relationship to the previous target of empowering people, explicitly women. In the current mission statement the wording is more neutral, for strategic reasons, says Kea Tijdens. The Dutch confederation of trade unions FNV was one of the original founders of the project.
The information "narrows the bandwith", as one of the participants said. More information on wages might lift wages, but that is not the mission of the project. The meeting formally adopted the mission statement.
The aim for 2008: expanding the project from 17 to 25 countries, covering all the large economies of the world.
Discussion: how to introduce a quality aspect, how comparable are developing countries and can they be included in the system. Including "non-wage" income should be a part of the information in the wage indicator, says Kea Tijdens. Both China and India start limited operation, China focusing on the Shanghai-area and India at the IT-sector.