CEU faculty and staff have right to strike, injunction a violation

January 14, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its solidarity with the faculty and employees of the Centro Escolar University (CEU) who want to go on strike to fight for better wages and benefits. We condemn Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma’s injunction order against the CEU faculty and employees’ strike, which is a violation […]

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Peasant organizer’s acquittal should push courts to junk trumped-up charges

January 14, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates with the peasant and human rights movement in the country the acquittal of a peasant organizer who was imprisoned for five years because of trumped-up charges. We hope that this acquittal will encourage courts to junk similar charges that are keeping political prisoners in jail. […]

Binaliw trash site collapse: employer, govt must be held accountable

January 11, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its deepest condolences to the families, friends and co-workers of the six reported dead workers, as of this writing, in the collapse of a mountain of garbage in Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City. At the same time, we are calling on the government to work […]

Mindoro rights violations should be stopped, investigated

January 11, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins people’s organizations and the human rights community in the Philippines and abroad in condemning the human rights violations being perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Abra de Ilog town of Occidental Mindoro. We demand an immediate end to, and an investigation […]

Ninja Van riders’ reinstatement, a boost to platform workers’ rights

January 7, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates a court decision released last December ordering Ninja Van to reinstate 131 of its riders whom the leading logistics provider in Southeast Asia retrenched for allegedly going on AWOL at work. The court decision is a most welcome statement about the labor rights of workers […]