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GREED OF MERCHANTS REDUCES PURCHASING POWER OF WORKERS

The value of the trade union minimum basket for October 2024 is 61,249.00 denars, compared to the value of the trade union minimum basket for the month of September 2024, which is 61,306.00 denars, it is reduced by 57.00 denars. With a rented apartment of 60 m2 for October, it is MKD 76,624.00.

It is significant to emphasize that the Government's measure to limit the amount of margins gave part of the desired result, but due to the greed for profit among the traders that the State must curb, the traders when they understood the intention of the Government to limit the margins, increased them the prices of all products, and we confirm this with the increase in the value of the food and beverages section in the Union minimum basket by more than 717 denars for the last month of September, and in the same section in the food and beverages section in the month of October 2024, which amounts to 22,069.00 denars compared to the month of September 2024 (23,034.00 days) is set for 965.00 denars. This confirms that prices should still be reduced, and their increase has nothing to do with economic logic or common sense, but only with greed, which is more and more pronounced in Macedonia.

We believe that when creating the measures, the Government should include the SSM for them to be better, bearing in mind that in the last measure, 47 categories of products out of 70 were taken over from the Union minimum basket prepared by the SSM, and for which we have the movement of prices in every month since the beginning of the year, and we believe that greater controls are needed and, if necessary, fines for unscrupulous traders who get rich on the backs of workers and citizens.

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