Lagunias is the general secretary of the Alyansa ng Manggagawa sa Engklabo (AMEN, Alliance of Enclave Workers) and a former union secretary of the Lakas ng Manggagawang Nagkakaisa sa Honda Cars (LMNH, Strength of the United Workers of Honda), a union of the Organized Labor Association in Line Industries and Agriculture (OLALIA), a federation of […]
Seven (7) activists, six (6) of whom are labor organizers, were rounded up in simultaneous raids in four different locations in Metro Manila on December 10, 2020. The raids were conducted based on search warrants issued by the notorious Executive Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert. All of them were charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives. […]
On April 19, 2019, Arlegui and Remias were putting up election posters of progressive candidates when they were abducted by police. They were then subjected to interrogation about their supposed links to armed rebels. Their abductors surfaced them after two days, after protests were held calling for their surfacing and release. Arlegui and Remias are […]
Gamara was arrested by the Regional Special Operations Unit of the PNP’s National Capital Region Office, the Philippine Army and the army’s intelligence agents on March 20, 2019 in Imus, Cavite. Arrested with him was a former priest and well-known leader of the anti-dictatorship struggle,, Arturo Joseph Balagat. His arrest was based on a search […]
Dizon is a former director of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and one of the founding leaders of COURAGE. After retiring from public office in 2003, she became an active staff member of COURAGE and a consultant of various people’s organizations and non-government organizations. She led the organizing efforts of the Manila Water and […]
The Rosales couple were both long-time organizers of COURAGE. They were arrested at around 7:00 in the evening in Balagtas, Bulacan on August 11, 2018 as they were going home from their used clothing business in the town’s marketplace. Several vehicles carrying plainclothes policemen blocked their tricycle, arrested them and brought them to the CIDG […]
Reyes is a former organizer of government employees’ union center Confederation for Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE). At the time of his arrest, he was convenor of Defend Job Philippines and a leader of the Sandigan ng Manggagawa sa Quezon City (Association of Workers in Quezon City), organizing workers in their struggle […]
Maga is a volunteer staff of national labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May First Movement). He also helped the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (PISTON), a KMU federation, in organizing its national coordinated protest in early 2018. He was arrested on the morning of February 22, 2018, while he was […]
As the International Labor Organization – High Level Tripartite Mission approaches, we reiterate our calls for justice and accountability for the 56 extrajudicial killings among agricultural workers, trade unionists and labor rights defenders under the Duterte administration. Injustice prevails as no perpetrator has been held to account with these brutal attacks. Workers and unionists continue […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemned the series of continuous state-sponsored red-tagging and harassment against workers’ unions and labor rights defenders. CTUHR raised alarm on the intensifying attacks against unionists and labor rights advocates and appealed to the Filipinos and the international community to unite and resist this. “This government […]
