In reaction to the recent controversy on the so-called Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights said that such improper use of government funds by the Executive only strengthens the calls to abolish the pork barrel system including the presidential pork. “The controversial DAP only reinforces the urgent need to […]
NGOs say new legislation can aid in ending “natural resource trade fueling conflict” A group of 58 non-government organizations from different parts of the world urged the European Commission to pass a “strong and effective” legislation that will “prevent European businesses [from] fueling conflict and human rights abuses through their purchases of natural resources” which […]
“The trend in rising unemployment is clear proof of the government’s regressive economic and labor policies.” This is what Arman Hernando, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights coordinator for documentation said in reaction to the latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) that revealed an increase in unemployment rate from 7% in July 2012 up to […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights criticized the recent wage adjustment saying the it is “demeaning” and “cruel” to workers especially amid rising prices and the P10- billion-peso scam. On September 6, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced the wage adjustment integrating P15 of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to basic […]
After almost a year of painstaking struggle, the 293 unjustly dismissed workers of Filipinas Palm Oil Plantation Inc. (FPPI) can finally go back today albeit still in casual status. FPPI Workers Union (FPIWU-NAFLU-KMU) President Elmer Jamero reported that the decision to bring the 293 casual workers back to work was made by the FPPI management […]
Labor NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights, joins the heightening calls to abolish the pork barrel or the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) saying it is the “only solution” to the systemic corruption in government as exposed in the recent 10-billion-peso scam involving 28 legislators and the JLN group of companies headed by […]
Center for Trade Union and Human Rights slammed the Department of Labor and Employment and Filipinas Palm Oil Plantation Inc.(FPPI) response to child labor issue in the said company saying that the Anti-Child Labor Program developed by the Technical Working Group (TWG) are “far weaker than palliatives” and “deceiving the workers”. CTUHR described the interventions […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) criticized the very tight security employed by the police by installing razor sharp wires along Commonwealth Ave. to keep the protesters away from Batasan Complex in time for the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) this afternoon, July 22. “Maybe President Aquino is too insecure […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights strongly condemns the killing of Davao City transport leader Antonio Petalcorin, President of Network of Transport Organization-Davao (NETO-NCTU-APL). This is another blow to the working sector and a clear indication that human rights situation in the country has not improved. According to reports, Antonio Petalcorin, was shot […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights condemned the successive arrests of Pentagon workers and their supporters who are protesting a lock-out exercised by the management of Pentagon Steel Corporation against more than one hundred workers of the said company. On June 24, Camilo Cuares, Deputy Secretary of the Alliance of Nationalist and Genuine […]
