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GMA employees’ win shows contractualization’s harms

January 25, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the Talent Association of GMA’s (TAG) victory in getting the Supreme Court to rule that the talents of GMA are the broadcast giant’s employees. The GMA employees’ victory further exposes contractualization’s violation of labor rights. After 11 years of legal battles, the Third Division of […]

BPO workers’ Senate testimony exposes union rights violations

January 24, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raises the alarm over the union rights violations exposed by Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees in the January 21 hearing of the Senate labor committee headed by Senator Raffy Tulfo. We demand that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and the Labor Department investigate the violations and protect […]

Journo’s conviction continues govt persecution

January 22, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the guilty verdict handed down today by the Tacloban Regional Trial Court (RTC) on journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil for terrorism financing charges. The guilty verdict extends the government persecution of Frenchie Mae and Marielle. The pattern is very clear: […]

CA ruling on disappeared activist faults Marcos Jr govt

January 16, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) hails the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling that James Jazmines, an activist who has been missing since August 2024, is a victim of enforced disappearance and that grants his wife the writs of amparo and habeas data. This decision lays the blame for Jazmines’ disappearance on […]

CEU faculty and staff have right to strike, injunction a violation

January 14, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its solidarity with the faculty and employees of the Centro Escolar University (CEU) who want to go on strike to fight for better wages and benefits. We condemn Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma’s injunction order against the CEU faculty and employees’ strike, which is a violation […]

Peasant organizer’s acquittal should push courts to junk trumped-up charges

January 14, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates with the peasant and human rights movement in the country the acquittal of a peasant organizer who was imprisoned for five years because of trumped-up charges. We hope that this acquittal will encourage courts to junk similar charges that are keeping political prisoners in jail. […]

Binaliw trash site collapse: employer, govt must be held accountable

January 11, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its deepest condolences to the families, friends and co-workers of the six reported dead workers, as of this writing, in the collapse of a mountain of garbage in Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City. At the same time, we are calling on the government to work […]

Mindoro rights violations should be stopped, investigated

January 11, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins people’s organizations and the human rights community in the Philippines and abroad in condemning the human rights violations being perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Abra de Ilog town of Occidental Mindoro. We demand an immediate end to, and an investigation […]

Ninja Van riders’ reinstatement, a boost to platform workers’ rights

January 7, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates a court decision released last December ordering Ninja Van to reinstate 131 of its riders whom the leading logistics provider in Southeast Asia retrenched for allegedly going on AWOL at work. The court decision is a most welcome statement about the labor rights of workers […]

Trump’s strike vs Venezuela: PH govt must condemn

January 4, 2026

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) stands with the international and Filipino labor movement in condemning US President Donald Trump’s ongoing regime change operation in Venezuela. The US, the world’s biggest superpower, has launched a military aggression, and the workers and peoples of the Philippines and the world should act now to […]