Colombia's Workers Central Union (CUT) on Tuesday rejected the 2021 minimum wage increase set at 3.5 percent and called it humiliating. Colombia Diogenes Orjuela "To tell a worker that they increased US$0.29 a day is a humiliation...is a humiliating increase in the minimum wage compared to the 5.2 percent in congressmen's wage," CUT President Diogenes Orjuela said. Including a transportation subsidy, the monthly minimum wage will shift from US$252 to US$291. However, the CUT activist Fabio Arias said that President Ivan Duque misleads people when he says that Colombian workers will earn above US$287 for the first time. Arias explained that the minimum living wage will actually be US$261, which does not include the US$30 awarded as "transportation assistance."