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On Duterte’s Passing the Responsibility to Congress to End Contractualization: Like Throwing a Person in a Shark-Infested Sea

April 20, 2018

Labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) slammed Pres Duterte’s turn around on end to contractualization, saying that Malacanang’s move smashes the tiniest hope for decent work that workers in this country were desperately holding when he assumed office. President Duterte promised to issue an Executive Order to end contractualization and […]

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Labor Rights Group Condemns Illegal Arrest of Urban Poor Organizer Ruby Lacadman

April 3, 2018

Labor rights group Center for Trade Union and Human Rights vehemently condemns the illegal arrest of Ruby Lacadman, organizer and member of urban poor group Kadamay, on March 29, 2018, at her home in Barangay Cacutud, Mabalacat City, Pampanga. Lacadman was forcibly taken by the police and military on the basis of defective warrant of […]

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Duterte’s Extension on EO vs Endo, Tactics to Keep the Unions Hoping While Tempering Increased Dissatisfaction

February 20, 2018

Labour rights group, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), scored President Duterte’s refusal to sign the draft Executive Order (EO) on ending contractualization submitted to him by the labor sector last February 7 as double-edged tactics to keep the unions’ hoping while tempering increased dissatisfaction over his unfulfilled promises.  Malacanang called on different […]

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TRAIN Law Plunging Workers and Poor Deeper into Poverty, Says Labor Rights NGO

February 1, 2018

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 […]

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CTUHR Statement On Spate of Extrajudicial Killings and Threat of Crackdown, An all-out defacto Martial Law

December 1, 2017

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 […]

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CTUHR Statement On Proposed Compressed Work Week

August 30, 2017

  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 […]

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Killing of Kian Delos Santos, 17, Exposes and Awakens the Many on the Viciousness of PDuterte’s War on Drugs

August 29, 2017

“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 […]

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Too Harsh and Anti-poor

August 26, 2017

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 […]

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Statement on the Commission on Appointment rejection of Prof Judy Taguiwalo as DSWD Secretary

August 16, 2017

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 […]

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Labor Rights Group Raises Alarm Over Militarization of Bureaucracy

May 13, 2017

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. […]

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