Lyceum should uphold rights of its faculty

March 29, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on the Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) administration to uphold the labor and human rights of the university’s faculty, in light of the faculty union’s preparations for a strike. After seven months of negotiations for a Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Lyceum Faculty Association (LFA) […]

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Duterte is 80, labor leader would have been 39

March 28, 2025

Today, March 28, is significant for the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) for two reasons: it is former President Rodrigo Duterte’s 80th birthday and labor leader Dandy Miguel’s fourth death annivesary. We call for justice for Pangulong Dandy and all the victims of extrajudicial killings in the labor movement during Duterte’s reign […]

Marcos Jr told: NTF-ELCAC, a Duterte, drug war legacy

March 27, 2025

Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemned President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s statement today, relayed to the media by National Security Council Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya, that he will “never” abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTF-ELCAC. May we remind President Marcos Jr that the […]

Labor NGO’s harassment shows continuing repression of unionism

March 22, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the three incidents of harassment against fellow labor NGO Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER). The harassment of EILER shows that repression of unionism continues under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr presidency. In its statement released on 21 March, EILER publicized and criticized incidents […]

Negros dev’t workers’ terrorism financing case junking welcome

March 21, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the junking of terrorism financing charges that were filed against three development workers based in Negros Occidental. Similar charges against development workers, labor activists and social movement activists should be junked immediately. The Iloilo Regional Trial Court Branch 31 dismissed the charges based on the […]