Today, March 28, is significant for the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) for two reasons: it is former President Rodrigo Duterte’s 80th birthday and labor leader Dandy Miguel’s fourth death annivesary. We call for justice for Pangulong Dandy and all the victims of extrajudicial killings in the labor movement during Duterte’s reign […]
Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemned President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s statement today, relayed to the media by National Security Council Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya, that he will “never” abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTF-ELCAC. May we remind President Marcos Jr that the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the three incidents of harassment against fellow labor NGO Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER). The harassment of EILER shows that repression of unionism continues under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr presidency. In its statement released on 21 March, EILER publicized and criticized incidents […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the junking of terrorism financing charges that were filed against three development workers based in Negros Occidental. Similar charges against development workers, labor activists and social movement activists should be junked immediately. The Iloilo Regional Trial Court Branch 31 dismissed the charges based on the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) has been following the negotiations for a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Santo Tomas (UST) administration and the university’s faculty union. The UST Faculty Union’s (USTFU) demands for a wage hike and medical assistance, the most contentious issues in the negotiations, deserve the UST […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the International Criminal Court’s issuance of an arrest warrant against former President Rodrigo Duterte. We also welcome the immediate arrest of Duterte upon his return to the country today from a trip to Hong Kong. These events prove that the grave labor and human rights […]
Today, International Working Women’s Day, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) spotlights the continued suffering of Filipino women workers under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Studies have shown that wage discrimination is real, that women workers mostly receive lower wages than male workers – even as most male and female workers in the […]
Today, we in the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), mark the fourth year of the notorious Bloody Sunday joint police-military raids in the Calabarzon region in 2021 that resulted in the killing of nine activists and the arrest of six others. We consider the Bloody Sunday raids a grave human rights violation […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights or CTUHR calls on the management of electronics giant Nexperia to respect its Filipino workers’ right to strike and on the Philippine government to protect this right. The workers have legitimate grievances which the Nexperia Philippines Inc management refused to adequately address and which left them with […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is calling on the government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to strengthen protections as extreme heat poses an increasingly serious threat to Filipino workers. In 2024, soaring temperatures between 40-60 degrees Celsius dominated the news, highlighting the dangerous effects of extreme heat on public health. While […]
