Together with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER), we conducted a forum on Labor Issues, Prospects under the Marcos Jr. Administration on July 21, 2022 at the CHR Pardec Rooms A&B, a few days before the 1st State of the Nation Address (SONA) of BBM. […]
Labor unions and labor rights advocates echoed their demands to the Marcos, Jr. administration as they gathered in the forum-consultation titled “Labor Issues, Challenges and Prospects under Marcos Jr. Administration” held last July 21. The event, co-organized by labor advocacy groups EILER and CTUHR as well as the Commission on Human Rights, started off through […]
URGENT APPEAL 23 August 2019 The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) seeks for your solidarity and support in calling for the immediate and unconditional release of 17 workers of local condiment company, NutriAsia Inc. arrested and detained more than a month ago. More than a year after the workers’ strike in Nutri […]
(photo from PEPMACO Workers Union FB Page) The labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the barbaric and brutal attack against the striking workers of Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corporation (PEPMACO), manufacturer of Champion brand detergent and other surfactants. At around 1:00 in the morning of June 28, 2019, hundreds […]
“In its 3rdLabor Day, the Duterte regime continue to fail on its election promises to end ENDO, provide substantial wage increase and halt the skyrocketing prices. Yet, it never have second thoughts on busting unions and blaming workers’ restlessness for factory closures. It astutely used Mindanao Martial Law to militarize workplaces, forced unionists to surrender and […]
The Labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) appealed to Ms. Susan Roces, through an open letter, to support the workers of Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corporation (PEPMACO). This is the company that manufactures the detergent brand Champion, which Roces endorses. The Center believes that Ms. Susan Roces, who portrays the character […]
Earlier today, Sec. Silvestre Bello of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) served an Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) Order on the strike of eight (8) unions led by NAMASUFA-NAFLU-KMU, from different packing plants at banana plantation giant-SUMIFRU Corporation in Compostela Valley. The order came two days after Duterte fired Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod. Unlike the […]
Labor rights group Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently denounces the violent dispersal thatinjured more than 30 persons and illegal arrest of 19 workers and supporters of NutriAsia in Marilao, Bulacan on July 30, 2018. CTUHR decries the consistent denial of NutriAsia that the striking workers were not theirs and of their […]
As the Duterte administration marks its 2nd Labor Day in power, it is no longer facing the hopeful workers and trade unions that trusted him, but a seething dismay of betrayed people. The regime did not only miserably fail in ending labour contractualization, getting national equal wage for workers all over the country, but paved […]
Labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) slammed Pres Duterte’s turn around on end to contractualization, saying that Malacanang’s move smashes the tiniest hope for decent work that workers in this country were desperately holding when he assumed office. President Duterte promised to issue an Executive Order to end contractualization and […]
