Month: November 2018

Labor Rights Group Releases “Bananas and Bullets: A Special Report on the Struggle of Banana Workers in Sumifru in Compostela”

November 24, 2018

On October 1, 2018, workers of Sumifru Philippines Corporation, a Japanese-owned multinational company, launched a strike over the company’s various labor rights violations. As the workers resisted and protested against the exploitative measure of the company, they were answered with more attacks on their rights. Just a few weeks ago, on October 31, one of […]

READ: ICTUR expresses alarm over deterioration of trade union rights in PH, urges Duterte admin to comply with international law

November 8, 2018

In its recent letter, the International Centre for Trade Union Rights expresses anew grave alarm over the “increasing deterioration of trade union rights in the Philippines” and the “repeated stigmatisation of trade union” which places the lives of unionists and labor activists in danger. ICTUR Director Daniel Blackburn raises deep concerns over the episodes of […]