One year ago, veteran labor organizer Jude Thaddeus Fernandez, 67, was murdered by police forces in his residence in Binangonan, Rizal. Despite the statement of then-Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin that the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government will carry out a thorough and impartial investigation into the case, Fernandez’ murder remains unsolved to this day. The […]
Today, we mark the 52nd anniversary of dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr’s declaration of Martial Law by condemning the continuation of Martial Law-type repression against the labor movement under the current presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The open fascist dictatorship of Marcos Sr is of course different from the elite democracy under Marcos Jr. The labor […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is calling the attention of the public and policymakers to the plight and protest of 400 employees who were retrenched in 2020 due to the privatization of the Bacolod City Water District or BACIWA. Amidst high unemployment in the country and the well-known problems brought about […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is dismayed by the admission of a Labor Department official that the country’s definition of an employed person is someone who worked for one hour in a week. We in the labor NGO believe that this definition is harmful to the labor and human rights of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns Vice President Sara Duterte for stonewalling legislative hearings on the budget allocated to her offices, as her behavior and the government’s failure to keep it in check are ultimately detrimental to labor and human rights. On social media, videos of the vice-president have become viral: […]
Today, International Day of the Disappeared, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls for the immediate surfacing and release of James Jazmines, brother of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Alan Jazmines, who was last since in Tabaco, Albay and has been missing since August 23. James Jazmines served […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the announcement yesterday, August 26, National Heroes’ Day, of the candidacy for the Senate of 10 leaders of the Makabayang Koalisyon ng mga Mamamayan (Makabayan) bloc, as they will surely boost discussions about labor and human rights during their campaign. Whatever the outcome of the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins worker and health worker groups in the country in calling for a cancellation of the transfer of supposed excess funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to the national treasury. Given the pressing health needs of many indigent patients, many of whom are workers, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) strongly condemns the arrest, based on trumped-up charges, of Jayvee “Jay” S. Apiag, a former leading human rights worker in Southern Mindanao and currently a law student. We are calling for the junking of the trumped-up charges filed against him and for his immediate release. Like […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) deeply mourns the death of long-time labor activist and political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr on July 23. CTUHR expresses its heartfelt condolences to Rimando’s family, friends and comrades and to the workers and the poor in the Visayas whom he worked with for almost 20 […]
