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Strike injunction in electronics giant violates labor rights

February 6, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma for assuming jurisdiction over the labor dispute in electronics giant Nexperia’s plant in Cabuyao, Laguna. This is a violation of the Nexperia workers’ right to collectively bargain and strike and their right to decent work. The 1,585 workers of Nexperia Philippines […]

Urban poor activists’ prison release show trumped-up charges used for repression

February 4, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the junking of trumped-up charges against two urban poor activists after almost six years of imprisonment. Their case is yet another example of how the government uses trumped-up charges to repress activism and dissent. We are glad that urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap […]

Wage Hike Bill’s Watering Down, Alarming

February 4, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the House of Representatives’ approval on second reading of the bill seeking a P200 wage hike for minimum wage workers in the country. At the same time, we are alarmed by, and condemn, the watering down of the bill previously approved by the House Labor […]

House Panel’s Approval of P200 Wage Hike Bill a Small Step in the Right Direction

January 30, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the House Committee on Labor and Employment’s consolidation and passage of bills for a P200 across-the-board minimum wage hike for private sector workers. This is a small step in the right direction. We are glad that the House version of the bill mandates a wage […]

Terror Financing Cases’ Rise, Attack on Democratic Rights

January 29, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the dismissal of terrorist financing charges that were filed against the head of a Leyte-based development NGO. At the same time, it condemns the filing of similar charges against five activists in the Cagayan Valley region. The increase in cases of terrorist financing filed by […]

Veteran Activist’s Arrest Shows Dissent Still Repressed under Marcos Jr.

January 29, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the arrest of Myrna Cruz-Abraham, a former labor organizer and a veteran activist, based on trumped-up charges of frustrated murder. Her arrest shows that repression of dissent continues under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government. Abraham, 69 years old, was arrested by eight Philippine National […]

Price Hikes, not Govt Meeting Inflation Target, Felt by Pinoys

January 26, 2025

Government claims that it met inflation targets are not convincing for workers and ordinary Filipinos who feel the increase in prices of basic goods and in payments for basic services. We call on the government to take decisive action against these price and payment hikes. In early January, the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government claimed that […]

200 Coke Contractuals’ Layoff Violates Labor Rights

January 15, 2025

Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns multinational soft drink giant Coca-Cola Company and its Philippines branch Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines for laying off 200 contractual workers in its Cebu operations after the Labor Department ordered their regularization. More than 200 contractual Coke workers, many of whom have been employed in the […]

Bonifacio Day illegal assembly case show police disrespect for rights

January 10, 2025

Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Philippine National Police (PNP) Manila Police District (MPD) for filing an illegal assembly case against labor leaders, progressive legislators, and leaders of peoples’ organizations in relation to the protest held on November 30, 2024, Andres Bonifacio Day.  It will be recalled that, on […]

Negros Development Workers’ Arrest Continues Marcos Govt Pattern of Repression

January 3, 2025

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO working in the labor sector, condemns the arrest of three development workers in Negros Occidental in the first days of 2025 and claims that the arrests show continuing government repression of development work in the country using counter-terrorism charges. On January 2, Federico Salvilla […]