Press StatementLabor Day 2024 2nd Labor Day under Marcos Jr: nothing but empty words for w0rkersToday, Internaational Labor Day, we celebrate, and protest the devaluation of, the contributions of workers globally not just to the economy but to the world’s development as a whole. We salute and celebrate the contributions of Filipino workers to the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), as an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, condemns police forces’ harassment of the jeepney drivers and operators and their supporters who started a transport strike yesterday, April 29. Police forces were […]
There is no doubt that the Philippines needs to modernize its transport system. There is also no doubt that we need to reduce if not eliminate pollution especially in the metropolis. But forcing small operators and more than 300,ooo jeepney drivers out on the streets and without income or buried in debt is totally unacceptable. […]
