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Electronics Giant’s Union-busting in Laguna Plant Must Stop

July 17, 2024

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that works for the empowerment of workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, expresses its alarm over electronics giant Nexperia’s union-busting drive in its plant in Cabuyao, Laguna. We call on the Nexperia management […]

Terror case vs. NCR labor leaders belies Marcos Jr labor rights adherence – Labor NGO

July 12, 2024

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government for the filing of charges based on the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 against 28 labor leaders and activists who are based in Metro Manila. The filing of terrorism charges against 28 labor leaders and activists on the basis of an […]

Anti-Terrorism Law being Used vs Labor Activists, Must be Junked – Labor NGO

July 4, 2024

July 3 marked the 4th year of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020. The Rodrigo Duterte and now Ferdinand Marcos Jr governments have consistently weaponized it to attack labor and social activists. The ATA has generally been a minus, rather than a plus, to labor and human rights and must immediately be repealed or junked. […]

Strip search suspension for jail visits welcome — Labor NGO

May 11, 2024

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, lauds the suspension of the New Bilibid Prison’s strip and cavity search among visitors of political prisoners in the jail facility. While we welcome the […]

Surface Lariosa! Minda Labor Organizer’s Abduction Reaches 1 Month

May 10, 2024

Today, May 10, is the first month of the abduction and enforced disappearance of veteran Mindanao labor organizer William Lariosa in Quezon, Bukidnon. We demand that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his government surface Lariosa now! Stop the abduction and enforced disappearance of labor activists! Stop the attacks on the labor movement! Eyewitnesses say that […]

‘No Vaccine, No Work policy,’ Discriminatory and Tantamount to Illegal Dismissal

October 27, 2021

“It is nothing but discriminatory and in times of pandemic where many are hungry, the policy is not only illegal but cruel and inhumane”. The Secretary knows very well the existing no work, no pay policy, CTUHR said in a statement. The last several days, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello […]

Labor Rights Group Challenges Nestle’s Commitment to Human Rights amidst Reports of Illegal Retrenchment and Harassment of Unionists

October 4, 2021

..”At Nestlé, we are determined to keep violations out of the value chains we control and to foster systems that can help keep them out of those we do not.” – Nestle Global website  The Center of Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) appreciates and counts on the human rights commitment made by Nestle Global in […]

[Repost] Myanmar Jade Mine Collapse Kills at Least 168

July 2, 2020

Myanmar Jade Mine Collapse Kills at Least 168 Dozens of miners were missing after a huge pile of muddy waste collapsed into an open pit in northern Myanmar, triggering a vast wave, an official said. By Saw Nang and Richard C. Paddock https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/world/asia/myanmar-jade-mine-collapse.html MANDALAY, Myanmar — With barely enough time to yell “run,” hundreds of jade miners had […]

On DOLE’s Issuance of DO 213

May 19, 2020

“Are the workers being abandoned?” This is the reaction of labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) when the Department of Labor and Employment issued Department Order 213, Series of 2020 or the “Prescribing Guidelines in the Prescription of Actions and the Suspension of Reglementary Periods To File Pleadings, Motions and […]

DOLE’S Closure of Assistance Program, Unjust, Irresponsible and Pointless

April 17, 2020

On April 15, 2020, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced that its COVID-19 Adjustment Measure Program (CAMP) is now closed for new applications. OIC Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay said that this is to give way to the transition to the wage subsidy for small business program of the Department of Finance.  The Center […]