The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is calling the attention of the public and policymakers to the plight and protest of 400 employees who were retrenched in 2020 due to the privatization of the Bacolod City Water District or BACIWA. Amidst high unemployment in the country and the well-known problems brought about […]
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The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the arrest of six leaders of jeepney drivers’ organizations and the repression of jeepney drivers at a September 18 protest against jeepney privatization in time for a transport summit in Bacolod City in the island of Negros. The arrest of the transport leaders, the use […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is dismayed by the admission of a Labor Department official that the country’s definition of an employed person is someone who worked for one hour in a week. We in the labor NGO believe that this definition is harmful to the labor and human rights of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns Vice President Sara Duterte for stonewalling legislative hearings on the budget allocated to her offices, as her behavior and the government’s failure to keep it in check are ultimately detrimental to labor and human rights. On social media, videos of the vice-president have become viral: […]
Today, International Day of the Disappeared, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls for the immediate surfacing and release of James Jazmines, brother of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Alan Jazmines, who was last since in Tabaco, Albay and has been missing since August 23. James Jazmines served […]
