The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) gives the proposed legislation imposing a “no work, no pay” scheme on the country’s legislators a critical and cautious support. While it is a step in the right direction, the bill, if it becomes a law, is a mere drop in the bucket of what the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with the delivery riders of Food Panda who are questioning the online food delivery platform’s unauthorized collection of taxes from them. We demand that Food Panda stop the collection of said payments and return the money that it has collected to its riders. […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with the supervisory staff of major telecommunications provider PLDT Inc. in their struggle for a better collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for 2026-2028. We call on the PLDT management, led by billionaire Manny V. Pangilinan, to bargain in earnest with its workers to advance […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) decries the death threats received by a people’s lawyer in Negros and the related attempted abduction and harassment of two NGO workers in the island. The threats against Atty. Rey Gorgonio stem from his service to workers and the poor and should be investigated and stopped […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the Talent Association of GMA’s (TAG) victory in getting the Supreme Court to rule that the talents of GMA are the broadcast giant’s employees. The GMA employees’ victory further exposes contractualization’s violation of labor rights. After 11 years of legal battles, the Third Division of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raises the alarm over the union rights violations exposed by Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees in the January 21 hearing of the Senate labor committee headed by Senator Raffy Tulfo. We demand that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and the Labor Department investigate the violations and protect […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the guilty verdict handed down today by the Tacloban Regional Trial Court (RTC) on journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil for terrorism financing charges. The guilty verdict extends the government persecution of Frenchie Mae and Marielle. The pattern is very clear: […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) hails the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling that James Jazmines, an activist who has been missing since August 2024, is a victim of enforced disappearance and that grants his wife the writs of amparo and habeas data. This decision lays the blame for Jazmines’ disappearance on […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its solidarity with the faculty and employees of the Centro Escolar University (CEU) who want to go on strike to fight for better wages and benefits. We condemn Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma’s injunction order against the CEU faculty and employees’ strike, which is a violation […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates with the peasant and human rights movement in the country the acquittal of a peasant organizer who was imprisoned for five years because of trumped-up charges. We hope that this acquittal will encourage courts to junk similar charges that are keeping political prisoners in jail. […]
