The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is utterly dismayed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s statements on the massive July 24 floods that were caused by the southwestern monsoon, which was strengthened by supertyphoon Carina (international name Gaemi). We call on him to study and act on the deeper reasons for the disaster. […]
Today, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr will deliver his third State of the Nation Address (SONA). Today, we in the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) say: it is already Marcos Jr’s third SONA, but Filipino workers still have not experienced the “bagong Pilipinas” (new Philippines) that he promised. Unemployment remains high, wages remain […]
This is an act of injustice that ignores the human rights situation in the country and must be overturned. The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the conviction of former Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Satur Ocampo, ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro and 11 others for child abuse. Seasoned activists Ocampo and […]
The amount can’t buy even a kilo of rice or cover the increase in transportation fare. The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), decries the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government-approved P35 wage increase for private-sector workers in the National Capital Region. The wage hike is completely inconsiderate towards workers and their families who are […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) statement to the International Labour Conference (ILC) about call center employees organizer Alex Dolorosa’s murder in April 24, 2023 as irresponsible, distorting facts and avoiding accountability. The DOLE cannot paint a positive picture of the labor and human […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy in order to claim their labor and human rights, is calling on the government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to intervene into the reported closure of Sofitel on July 1 in order […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the inclusion of the Philippines in the agenda of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 112th International Labour Conference, currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland. We tell the ILO’s ILC: the Philippines is not making any progress in protecting labor rights and human rights. The data […]
Ang Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), isang non-government organization na sumusuporta sa mga manggagawa sa pormal at di-pormal na sektor ng ekonomiya para isabuhay ang kanilang mga karapatang pangmanggagawa at pantao, ay mahigpit na nakikiisa sa ating lahat na narito ngayon at sa ating mga kapanalig. Makabuluhan ang layunin ng ating pagtitipon […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is raising the alarm on the increase in terrorist financing cases that are being filed against labor leaders, on top of continuing rights violations including the continued disappearance of a labor organizer and imprisonment of labor activists based on trumped-up charges. In the past months, terrorist […]
The case is most absurd, as the labor leader and each of the development workers have no money and had to borrow money in order to post the P200,000 bail for their temporary liberty. A few days after Labor Day, posters red-tagging AMA Sugbo-KMU, youth activist organization Anakbayan and umbrella organization Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or […]
