Stop promoting labour market deregulation, a race to the bottom’ The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently held their Annual Meeting in Bali, Indonesia between October 8 and 14 to discuss issues of global economic and developmental concern, and to provide recommendations for the World Development Report 2019. The report, which proposes […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns in strongest possible term the massacre of nine sugarcane workers, including four women and two minors, in Hacienda Nene, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City, Negros Occidental yesterday October 20, 2018. While resting in a hut at 9pm last night, around 40 armed men strafed them with […]
Labor rights group, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) strongly denounces the violent dispersal of the workers’ strike at Sumifru Philippines Corporation in Compostela Valley. On October 11, 2018, 11th day of the strike, combined elements of 66th IB of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) and private […]
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As the IMF and World Bank began their meeting in Bali, Indonesia, first with civil society organizations and a formal meeting that will begin on October 12, CTUHR joins various movements and organizations in opposing the International Monetary Fund – World Bank (IMF-WB) proposal about the so-called ‘future of work’. We are reposting the Thailand-based […]
SMT Philippines Inc., a Japanese company producing and supplying USB for Toshiba and motherboard for EPSON printers closes operation without notice last, October 1, 2018, in what the workers’ union says is an apparent move to stop their collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiation and to bust their union. SMT management denied entry of the morning shift workers […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is dismayed, but not surprised over the sudden removal of Joel Maglunsod from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Duterte’s ascription of the workers strikes and collective actions in different parts of the country to then Usec. Maglunsod is a direct affront to the intelligence […]
Earlier today, Sec. Silvestre Bello of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) served an Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) Order on the strike of eight (8) unions led by NAMASUFA-NAFLU-KMU, from different packing plants at banana plantation giant-SUMIFRU Corporation in Compostela Valley. The order came two days after Duterte fired Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod. Unlike the […]
