The May 2025 issue of the CTUHR Monitor provides a comprehensive report on the state of workers under the first three years of the Marcos Jr. administration. It highlights key issues such as low wages, high prices, attacks on labor rights, and worsening conditions in sectors like women, transport, agriculture, and unemployment. It also tackles […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with the family and friends of Prudencio “Tatay Pruding” Cebu Calubid Jr as they file for a writ of habeas corpus for the 81-year old retired technician who was wrongly arrested in December 2024 and remains detained because of mistaken identity compounded with […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the decision of the Manila Prosecutor’s Office to junk the case filed by Manila policemen against activist leaders, most of whom who are running for the 2025 elections, over the skirmishes during the Bonifacio Day protests last year. The ruling is a win for workers’ […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the arrest of six leaders of jeepney drivers’ organizations and the repression of jeepney drivers at a September 18 protest against jeepney privatization in time for a transport summit in Bacolod City in the island of Negros. The arrest of the transport leaders, the use […]
Amidst congressional deliberations on the proposed 2025 national budget, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to abolish the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) now and heed the numerous bases and calls for the agency’s abolition. Since its founding, the NTF-ELCAC has […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) Philippines held a forum at the Commission on Human Rights building, July 18, discussing the state of workers’ rights and welfare under the Marcos Jr. administration. Mass organizations hastened their advocacies for better conditions, emphasizing solidarity among Philippine laborers. Speakers tackled Filipino workers’ worsening status quo […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
