The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the release from prison of a labor leader from the Southern Tagalog region who was arrested in October 2024 based on trumped-up charges. It is calling on the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government to immediately release the other 18 political detainees from the labor movement in […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) stands with the country’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees in demanding that employers who placed their safety at risk during super typhoon Uwan should be held accountable. The Ferdinand Marcos Jr government should punish erring BPO firms to ensure the protection of Filipino workers. We salute […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) mourns the untimely death of Bisher Miñoza, a union leader employed by the Coke factory in Cebu, who was murdered on the night of October 24, 2025. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues in the labor group the Sentro ng mga […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its deep concern over the injunction imposed by the Labor Secretary on the strike of motorcycle company Kawasaki. We demand that the Labor Department compel the company to reinstate the seven (7) unionists whom it retrenched and heed the workers’ demands for higher pay. Last […]
The Ferdinand Marcos Jr government should listen to the Filipino workers and people. The devastation caused by strong typhoons hitting the country is not deflecting public attention away from government corruption. Instead, the deaths and destruction left by typhoons are further fueling public anger against corruption. This is the Center for Trade Union and Human […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses alarm over the mass layoffs at a palm oil giant owned by the wealthy Consunji family in Negros Occidental. We demand greater government oversight of the mass layoffs and other labor rights violations in the company. The National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) reports that […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the series of harassment faced by labor leaders in the Southern Tagalog region over the last few months. It asserted that these cases of harassment serve as a litmus test for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s recent executive order that seeks to defend workers’ freedom of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns state agents’ repeated harassment of an organizer of sugarcane workers and farmers in Batangas. We demand that state agents immediately stop the harassment and that concerned government agencies immediately investigate these cases. On October 30, men claiming to be military personnel led by one Sgt. […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) unites with the Filipino workers and people in marking this year’s All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day by remembering the labor activists who were murdered and disappeared since the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte and by continuing to call for justice for them. This November 1 […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its concern over Swiss multinational Nestle’s announcement last October 16 of carrying out mass layoffs over the next two years. The plan of the world’s biggest food and beverage company to remove 16,000 jobs worldwide in a restructuring process aimed at saving costs and increasing […]
