The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the abduction of a campaigner of progressive partylist group Bayan Muna in the Southern Tagalog region as another proof of the rottenness of elections in the country under elite democracy. We demand that Pauline Joy Banjawan, who is also an organizer of progressive urban […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins the Catholic Church, the entire Christendom, and the workers of the world in mourning the death of Pope Francis, the workers’ and people’s pope. We will remember Pope Francis as a true follower of Christ, a champion of the dignity of workers and all humans, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) marks the first year of veteran labor organizer William Lariosa’s disappearance by condemning the Philippine courts’ inaction on his case and by calling for his immediate surfacing by the Philippine military. We also express our solidarity with Lariosa’s family and colleagues and various organizations in southern […]
As the labor movement prepares to mark Labor Day, the third under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, we at the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) call the public’s attention to continuing violations of Filipino workers’ labor and human rights and call on the government to end these violations. Former President Rodrigo Duterte has […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) express its warm solidarity with the workers of J&T Express and their unions in Manila and Pampanga who launched their respective strikes against the unfair labor practices of one of country’s leading logistics company. On March 3, around 100 J&T riders and truck drivers, led by […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on the Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) administration to uphold the labor and human rights of the university’s faculty, in light of the faculty union’s preparations for a strike. After seven months of negotiations for a Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Lyceum Faculty Association (LFA) […]
Today, March 28, is significant for the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) for two reasons: it is former President Rodrigo Duterte’s 80th birthday and labor leader Dandy Miguel’s fourth death annivesary. We call for justice for Pangulong Dandy and all the victims of extrajudicial killings in the labor movement during Duterte’s reign […]
Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemned President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s statement today, relayed to the media by National Security Council Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya, that he will “never” abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTF-ELCAC. May we remind President Marcos Jr that the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the three incidents of harassment against fellow labor NGO Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER). The harassment of EILER shows that repression of unionism continues under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr presidency. In its statement released on 21 March, EILER publicized and criticized incidents […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the junking of terrorism financing charges that were filed against three development workers based in Negros Occidental. Similar charges against development workers, labor activists and social movement activists should be junked immediately. The Iloilo Regional Trial Court Branch 31 dismissed the charges based on the […]
