CTUHR marked its 40th anniversary on October 9, 2024. The Center was found in 1984, during the dark era of the Marcos Sr. regime. CTUHR emerged in response to the worsening violations of workers’ rights under the dictatorship. For four decades, it has been committed to supporting the workers’ movement by monitoring and documenting human […]
Photo lifted from NAFLU KMU’s Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/T1eqTnyXRUNAZ1Eg/ The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, raises concerns about the recent incident of state surveillance and intimidation to one of the leaders of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns state personnel’s surveillance, harassment, and intimidation of union leaders and members of the Cagdianao Mining Workers Union (CAMWU-NAFLU-KMU) in the CARAGA Region from 2022 to 2024. This case is evidence of continuing state harassment and abuse of workers’ labor and human rights under the administration […]
(CTUHR’s article included in Karapatan’s 2021 Year-End Human Rights Report) Under Duterte’s war against dissent, red-tagging of activists and critics was at its worst. The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) became its main instrument in its red-tagging spree against various progressive groups and individuals who criticize Duterte’s policies and programs. […]
Struggles of Young Contractual Workers When you are 25 years old and does not have a secure job, you are always afraid. You scramble where to apply for a new job after 5 months. You worry if any company will accept you because you compete with more and more younger workers every time. You feel […]
translated from Women WISE3 (stories of impacts, of resilience, hope and struggles of workers, their organization, unions in the time of pandemic) To be a Mother and Unemployed My name is Precy Laging, married to Lando Laging and we are blessed with a 13 year old boy. We are renting a small room, just enough […]
New Normal sa Ilalim ni Duterte: Panunupil at Kapabayaan Makasaysayan ang Taong 2020 sa lahat. Napakaraming mga pangyayaring lokal at pandaigdigan ang bumago sa takbo ng kinasanayang buhay ng nakararami. Kung sa Pilipinas iyan, nariyan ang mga sunud-sunod na disaster at kalamidad mula sa pag-aalburoto ng Bulkang Taal, Bagyong Ulysses, Rolly, Vicky at iba pa. […]
Ako si Me-Ann at ito ang #KwentongLockdown ko. Isa akong street sweeper sa Novaliches. Nang ipatupad ang lockdown, kaming mga babaeng street sweeper ay hindi na muna pinapasok. Mga lalaki na lang daw muna ang magpapatuloy sa trabaho. Kaya naman matinding hirap ang hinaharap namin sa pagkukuhaan ng panggastos pang-araw-araw. Para makaraos ay naisip naming magkakapitbahay na […]
Ako si Melvin at ito ang #KwentongLockdown ko. Isa akong welder sa isang kumpanya sa Valenzuela. May isang anak ako at buntis ang aking asawa. No work-no pay ang trabaho ko. Nakatanggap lang ako ng 13th month pay na nagkakahalagang P1,700 mula sa kumpanya. Hindi pa ako nakakuha ng pangakong financial assistance ng DOLE na […]
Noong nakaraang buwan, Hunyo 2017, isinagawa ng mga minero mula sa Mindanao ang “Lakbayan”. Ang “Lakbayan” ay isang kampanya na isinagawa ng mga minero mula sa Mindanao para iparating sa mga kinauukulang ahensya ng gobyerno sa Maynila ang kanilang kalagayan sa mga minahan, at panawagang tulong at agarang aksyon sa mga iyon. Itinayo ng mga […]
