The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses alarm over the mass layoffs at a palm oil giant owned by the wealthy Consunji family in Negros Occidental. We demand greater government oversight of the mass layoffs and other labor rights violations in the company. The National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) reports that […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) acknowledges President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s signing, last September 19, of an executive order affirming workers’ right to unionization. We consider this a positive development, but workers and their advocates will remain vigilant towards the order’s implementation. Executive Order No. 97 orders all government agencies to uphold […]
Filipino workers, workers’ organizations and their advocates have every reason to be dismayed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) which is deafeningly silent on workers’ rights. Marcos Jr’s SONA does not talk about the human rights violations committed by his predecessor that remain unaddressed to this day. The president […]
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 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 […]
As the labor movement prepares to mark Labor Day, the third under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, we at the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) call the public’s attention to continuing violations of Filipino workers’ labor and human rights and call on the government to end these violations. Former President Rodrigo Duterte has […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes various local and international efforts to study and keep track of labor rights in the Philippines, including the Labor Rights Index of Amsterdam-based global, independent, and non-profit organizations Wage Indicator and Centre for Labour Research. The decrease in the Philippines’ score in the Labor Rights […]
Press StatementLabor Day 2024 2nd Labor Day under Marcos Jr: nothing but empty words for w0rkersToday, Internaational Labor Day, we celebrate, and protest the devaluation of, the contributions of workers globally not just to the economy but to the world’s development as a whole. We salute and celebrate the contributions of Filipino workers to the […]
