The P50 minimum wage increase which was recently approved by the Metro Manila wage board does little to provide workers with an immediate relief amidst the cost of living crisis and to move closer to a living wage as mandated by the 1987 Philippine Constitution. While the P50 wage hike is the highest increase ever […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) statement on the June 2025 report on the Philippines submitted by Ms. Irene Khan, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion. The anti-insurgency body’s statement is full of distortions about its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with Maximo “Kuya Max” Londonio, a Filipino union leader in the US, and his family, friends and comrades in the labor and migrant movement in calling for his immediate release from detention by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a stop […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) statement on the June 2025 report on the Philippines submitted by Ms. Irene Khan, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion. The anti-insurgency body’s statement is full of distortions about its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raises concerns over the contractualization scheme being implemented by cable television and broadband internet services provider Sky Cable Corporation and the numerous violations of workers’ rights involved in the scheme. After Sky Cable, citing “severe financial distress,” retrenched half of its workforce in late 2024 and […]
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 […]
