While the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is laudable in using its Facebook Page for informing workers and Filipinos about labor laws, it is condemnable for leaving out workers’ rights in its publicity materials. In its July 24, 2025 post, the DOLE quotes Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma in saying that the mininum wage is for […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on the government to protect workers’ rights to health and safety amidst the effects and continuing threat of the southwest monsoon and typhoons on the country. Apart from its tone of address, the government’s incomplete suspension of work in the previous days highlights its failure […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is calling on Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez to provide support to Filipinos who are being victimized by actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amidst the Donald Trump administration’s intensified crackdown on migrants. When he was released from detention […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the National University’s (NU) dismissal from work of a professor who has rendered two and a half years of service as a stark example of contractualization in the country’s private universities. The dismissal of Jose Mario de Vega, who is Associate Professor 1 in the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the conviction for child abuse of activism legend Satur Ocampo, Rep. Teacher France Castro, eight teachers of a Lumad school and three volunteers, collectively known as “Talaingod 13,” by a Tagum City court this month. The unjust conviction of the 13 activists further exposes […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its warmest solidarity with the workers and people of India who held a national strike against anti-worker laws on July 9, in which 250 million workers and farmers participated. The strike highlights the kinds of attacks that the workers of the world, including Filipino workers, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses grave alarm over the deaths of 31 workers in one month, which include five (5) in a mining tunnel tragedy in Nueva Vizcaya, two (2) in an explosion at an ammunition manufacturing facility in Marikina, and others caused by trucks falling into ravines and crashing […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government, as represented by its Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), for appealing the release from detention of a victim of mistaken identity of the government’s counter-insurgency drive. The government is showing its incapacity to admit and learn from its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the temporary release from detention of public unionist Tonette Dizon on July 2, after the courts dismissed 13 out of the 17 trumped-up cases filed against her and allowed her to post bail for the remaining four cases. The release of Dizon, former director of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) recognizes the difficulty faced by the Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation (KMPC) in balancing financial losses with workers’ demand for a wage hike. At the same time, arriving at a compromise can be done and has to be done. The KMPC management can do this by negotiating […]
