Letter to the Editor (published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:02 AM August 26, 2017) Last Aug. 3, Quezon City’s public order and safety department implemented a “one-strike policy” against unregistered or “colorum” tricycles (“QC gov’t crushes sidecars seized from colorum,” Metro, 8/4/17). Hundreds of tricycles were publicly destroyed to serve as warning to other […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is grievously dismayed over the Commission on Appointment’s rejection of Prof. Judy Taguiwalo as DSWD chief this afternoon. This decision is also tantamount to rejecting the principle and belief that the true measure of genuine public service is having your heart beat, your mind think, hands […]
The labor rights institution, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raised serious alarm over President Rodrigo Duterte’s appointment of military generals in his cabinet, stating that it is an ominous sign for the already deteriorating human rights situation in the country and shows an increased tendency for militarist solution to the country’s ills. […]
“Noong bata pa ako, palipat lipat ng trabaho ang tatay ko dito sa Valenzuela at sa iba pang lugar, Kontraktwal siyang manggagawa. Madalas, wala siyang trabaho. Nakita ko kung gaano kahirap ang buhay niya at ang buhay namin. Maliit lang ang kinikita niya. Ngayon, mahigit 20 na ang edad ko, kontraktwal din akong manggagawa at […]
Fourteen workers were killed in politically motivated killings and workers are restive over absence of significant change in their condition that has not come under the Duterte administation, says a labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR). This number is more than twice the six (6) victims during Benigno Aquino’s first […]
On the 25th anniversary of the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (UDHA), the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) stands in solidarity and calls for more support to Kadamay’s occupation of idle housing projects which started on March 8. “UDHA miserably failed in providing shelter to the underprivileged and homeless which the […]
The labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) commends the decisiveness of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez to suspend and cancel contracts of large scale and extractive mining firms in the country. In a country where multinational corporations favourably aided by foreign investment laws lord over […]
Members of the National Fact-Finding Mission (NFFM) on the House Technology Industries tragedy revealed today that hundreds of HTI workers still remain unaccounted, contrary to the claim of HTI management, the Philippine Export Processing Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Cavite local government unit. “The public deserves to know the truth. The data we have gathered […]
I. Introduction Background On February 1, 2017, at around 6 PM, a fire broke inside the premises of the three-storey building owned by HTI. Accounts from the workers indicated that between 1,000-2,000 workers were inside the building at that time. Some of the workers were about to leave HTI and some were coming in for their […]
In light of the apparent information blackout concerning the fire that devoured the House Technology Industries main building (HTI) inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone, various labor institutions and people’s organization initiated a National Fact Finding Mission to probe the extent of casualties, the circumstances of the incident and possible labor standards violations that resulted […]
