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Duterte administration, worst and harshest to workers’ rights- CTUHR

June 17, 2018

MEDIA RELEASE 12 June 2018 Reference: Daisy Arago CTUHR Executive Director Tel # 0916248 4876 / 4110256 Duterte administration, worst and harshest to workers’ rights- CTUHR Labor rights NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) affirms the recent report of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which ranked the Philippines as among the 10 […]

Think First Before You Drink Coke

June 17, 2018

Media Release 03 April 2018 Reference: Daisy Arago CTUHR Executive Director Tel # 0916248 4876 / 4110256 THINK FIRST BEFORE YOU DRINK COKE: Labour rights group slams Coca-Cola’s brazen disregard of labour laws, arrogant refusal to regularize its 675 contractual workers “When aggrieved workers have found recourse in law to get regular employment denied them […]

On 2nd Labor Day of President Duterte, Regime Not Only Miserably Failed on Ending ‘Endo’, but Intensified Workers’ Rights Violations – CTUHR

May 1, 2018

As the Duterte administration marks its 2nd Labor Day in power, it is no longer facing the hopeful workers and trade unions that trusted him, but a seething dismay of betrayed people. The regime did not only miserably fail in ending labour contractualization, getting national equal wage for workers all over the country, but paved […]

On Duterte’s Passing the Responsibility to Congress to End Contractualization: Like Throwing a Person in a Shark-Infested Sea

April 20, 2018

Labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) slammed Pres Duterte’s turn around on end to contractualization, saying that Malacanang’s move smashes the tiniest hope for decent work that workers in this country were desperately holding when he assumed office. President Duterte promised to issue an Executive Order to end contractualization and […]

Labor Rights Group Condemns Illegal Arrest of Urban Poor Organizer Ruby Lacadman

April 3, 2018

Labor rights group Center for Trade Union and Human Rights vehemently condemns the illegal arrest of Ruby Lacadman, organizer and member of urban poor group Kadamay, on March 29, 2018, at her home in Barangay Cacutud, Mabalacat City, Pampanga. Lacadman was forcibly taken by the police and military on the basis of defective warrant of […]

Duterte’s Extension on EO vs Endo, Tactics to Keep the Unions Hoping While Tempering Increased Dissatisfaction

February 20, 2018

Labour rights group, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), scored President Duterte’s refusal to sign the draft Executive Order (EO) on ending contractualization submitted to him by the labor sector last February 7 as double-edged tactics to keep the unions’ hoping while tempering increased dissatisfaction over his unfulfilled promises.  Malacanang called on different […]

TRAIN Law Plunging Workers and Poor Deeper into Poverty, Says Labor Rights NGO

February 1, 2018

Almost exactly a month since the Duterte administration implemented its much-hyped Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law, labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expressed serious alarm over the TRAIN effects saying it is rapidly plunging workers and poor families into deeper into poverty and precariousness.  CTUHR also points out that […]

CTUHR Statement On Spate of Extrajudicial Killings and Threat of Crackdown, An all-out defacto Martial Law

December 1, 2017

Twenty workers, trade union organizers and labour rights defenders had been extra-judicially killed since President Duterte came to power and wage its bloody and brutal wars on drugs, on terrorism and insurgency. Women in the informal sector, had their first taste of these wars when Merly Valguna and Dorie Mallari were brutally killed in public […]

CTUHR Statement On Proposed Compressed Work Week

August 30, 2017

  While the public mourned and raged on the war on drugs-related killing of Kian Delos Santos, the House of Representatives (HOR) on August 21, 2017 passed the House Bill 6152 (HB6152) or the Compressed Work Week (CWW). HB 6152 as HOR press release described seeks to institutionalize the compressed work week scheme to promote […]

Killing of Kian Delos Santos, 17, Exposes and Awakens the Many on the Viciousness of PDuterte’s War on Drugs

August 29, 2017

“It is painful but quite normal for children to bury their parents, but it is many times painful for parents to bury their kids, especially if they are just beginning their life. But the killing of Kian Delos Santos, and the many who mourned and raged somehow emboldened the neighbors, the families, the victims, even […]