The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the announcement yesterday, August 26, National Heroes’ Day, of the candidacy for the Senate of 10 leaders of the Makabayang Koalisyon ng mga Mamamayan (Makabayan) bloc, as they will surely boost discussions about labor and human rights during their campaign. Whatever the outcome of the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins worker and health worker groups in the country in calling for a cancellation of the transfer of supposed excess funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to the national treasury. Given the pressing health needs of many indigent patients, many of whom are workers, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) strongly condemns the arrest, based on trumped-up charges, of Jayvee “Jay” S. Apiag, a former leading human rights worker in Southern Mindanao and currently a law student. We are calling for the junking of the trumped-up charges filed against him and for his immediate release. Like […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) deeply mourns the death of long-time labor activist and political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr on July 23. CTUHR expresses its heartfelt condolences to Rimando’s family, friends and comrades and to the workers and the poor in the Visayas whom he worked with for almost 20 […]
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 […]
