The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights welcomes the report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council that was submitted by Special Rapporteur Irene Khan about her visit to the Philippines from January 23 to February 2, 2024. The report, released this month, rightly captures the Ferdinand Marcos Jr administration’s hypocrisy and inaction […]
In the wake of the 19th Congress’ adjournment without passing a proposed legislation for a significant wage increase for Filipino workers, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Senate, the House of Representatives and ultimately President Ferdinand Marcos Jr for their disregard for the sorry plight of the country’s laborers. Filipino […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the report submitted by Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, to the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council regarding the human rights of families of victims of unlawful killings. (Link: https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/54) Tidball-Binz’s report consolidates and […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) recognizes and celebrates the legal victories that activists have won in the previous week. These wins give the Filipino workers and people hope and inspire all labor and human rights defenders to demand more in the coming months. >> June 4 – a Bulacan court cleared […]
Two and a half years removed from the International Labour Organization-High Level Tripartite Mission (ILO-HLTM) to the Philippines, justice remains nowhere in sight for our fallen brothers and sisters. Not a single case of extrajudicial killing of workers has been solved. Not a single suspect has been apprehended. Not one case has prospered except one […]
The Global Rights Index 2025 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) highlights the hypocrisy of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government on workers’ rights. It affirms the continuing dire situation of workers’ rights in the country, contrary to the government’s promises and claims. For the ninth year in a row, the global labor federation’s workers’ […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the suspension meted out to a public sector unionist who used her social media account to forward contractual employees’ demands to the head of the government agency employing her. We believe that the suspension should be lifted immediately and is a bad sign for the […]
Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is observing closely the workers’ strike, which started more than a month ago, in FOC Transportation Corporation, a company whose buses ply the Lucena-Infanta route in Quezon province. We are calling on the FOC Transportation Corporation to propose a better separation package for workers. The […]
Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on the Kasawaki Motors Philippines Corporation (KMPC) and the government to ensure that the rights of Kawasaki workers to collectively bargain is truly upheld and protected. On May 21, Kawasaki workers, led by the Kawasaki United Labor Union (KULU), launched a strike in the […]
One week after the May 12 elections and two days after the Commission on Elections proclaimed senators who won the elections, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on all newly-elected legislators and politicians to address the worsening jobs crisis and uphold workers’ rights. The labor NGO cited data released by independent […]
