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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
