The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government, as represented by its Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), for appealing the release from detention of a victim of mistaken identity of the government’s counter-insurgency drive. The government is showing its incapacity to admit and learn from its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the temporary release from detention of public unionist Tonette Dizon on July 2, after the courts dismissed 13 out of the 17 trumped-up cases filed against her and allowed her to post bail for the remaining four cases. The release of Dizon, former director of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) recognizes the difficulty faced by the Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation (KMPC) in balancing financial losses with workers’ demand for a wage hike. At the same time, arriving at a compromise can be done and has to be done. The KMPC management can do this by negotiating […]
As the Anti-Terror Act (ATA) marks its fifth year, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins labor centers, development and other NGOs, and people’s organizations in calling for the immediate review, if not the junking, of the law, together with the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act (TFPSA). The country’s supposed anti-terrorism […]
The P50 minimum wage increase which was recently approved by the Metro Manila wage board does little to provide workers with an immediate relief amidst the cost of living crisis and to move closer to a living wage as mandated by the 1987 Philippine Constitution. While the P50 wage hike is the highest increase ever […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) statement on the June 2025 report on the Philippines submitted by Ms. Irene Khan, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion. The anti-insurgency body’s statement is full of distortions about its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with Maximo “Kuya Max” Londonio, a Filipino union leader in the US, and his family, friends and comrades in the labor and migrant movement in calling for his immediate release from detention by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a stop […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) statement on the June 2025 report on the Philippines submitted by Ms. Irene Khan, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion. The anti-insurgency body’s statement is full of distortions about its […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raises concerns over the contractualization scheme being implemented by cable television and broadband internet services provider Sky Cable Corporation and the numerous violations of workers’ rights involved in the scheme. After Sky Cable, citing “severe financial distress,” retrenched half of its workforce in late 2024 and […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights welcomes the report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council that was submitted by Special Rapporteur Irene Khan about her visit to the Philippines from January 23 to February 2, 2024. The report, released this month, rightly captures the Ferdinand Marcos Jr administration’s hypocrisy and inaction […]
