Workers of Pepmaco and their supporters conducted a picket protest near in their plant in Airstrip Silangan, Canlubang, Calamba City in Laguna last September 9. They are still demanding for regularization of work and to improve working condition. The Pepmaco Workers Union (PWU-NAFLU-KMU) thru their Union President Angelo Canete vows to continue their collective action […]
Resist Martial Law in Negros, Stop the Killings! Build Peace in Negros Now! What’s in Negros Island that killings, violence and poverty keep on pounding the province and its people seems to have not known peace in their lives? Why is the State is using it as a laboratory or testing ground for something so dangerous […]
“Big foreign capitalists and their partner businesses are celebrating with the veto of the SoT Bill.” This is the initial reaction of the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) on President Duterte’s Veto of the Security of Tenure Bill. Duterte vetoed the bill, last night, retracted an hour later and formalized the veto […]
“Broken promises, broken further by a combination of laws and practices that Duterte government created while making the Filipino poor poorer and sending the Philippines to indebtedness to China”, says the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) on the President’s 4thState of the Nation Address (SONA) and 3 years in power. “Duterte actually inflicted […]
“They are lying! No one from DOLE contacted us to ask about the 43 workers and labour rights defenders killed under the three years of the Duterte administration,”said Daisy Arago, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) Executive Director. This is almost double the 26 killed under 6-year Aquino administration, and almost half of […]
(photo from PEPMACO Workers Union FB Page) The labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the barbaric and brutal attack against the striking workers of Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corporation (PEPMACO), manufacturer of Champion brand detergent and other surfactants. At around 1:00 in the morning of June 28, 2019, hundreds […]
Days had passed since your passing and the grief had been overwhelming. It is not a comfortable and feeling to write a tribute to someone who passed away, because you can no longer hear what we have to say. There’s always this guilt that we didn’t even thank you enough when you were alive. THANK […]
If Women Stop, The World Stops *Demand no gender wage gap, end gender-based violence among other issues* * Call for a Women’s Global Strike on 8th March 2020* 01 May 2019Chiang Mai, ThailandFor Immediate Release On May Day, feminists, women’s groups and social justice movements are demanding a just, fair and equitable world that includes, […]
“In its 3rdLabor Day, the Duterte regime continue to fail on its election promises to end ENDO, provide substantial wage increase and halt the skyrocketing prices. Yet, it never have second thoughts on busting unions and blaming workers’ restlessness for factory closures. It astutely used Mindanao Martial Law to militarize workplaces, forced unionists to surrender and […]
W“We cannot focus on our work and the blower in the factory is not enough to ventilate the production plant,”said Blas, a factory worker. “We can’t work any longer now reducing our income due to heat,” Regie, a pedicab driver butts in. “Our family members contract several illnesses, cough, asthma and several skin diseases due to […]
