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 […]
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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 […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) has been following the negotiations for a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Santo Tomas (UST) administration and the university’s faculty union. The UST Faculty Union’s (USTFU) demands for a wage hike and medical assistance, the most contentious issues in the negotiations, deserve the UST […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the International Criminal Court’s issuance of an arrest warrant against former President Rodrigo Duterte. We also welcome the immediate arrest of Duterte upon his return to the country today from a trip to Hong Kong. These events prove that the grave labor and human rights […]
Today, International Working Women’s Day, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) spotlights the continued suffering of Filipino women workers under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Studies have shown that wage discrimination is real, that women workers mostly receive lower wages than male workers – even as most male and female workers in the […]
