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) recognizes the difficulty faced by the Kawasaki Motors Philippines Corporation (KMPC) in balancing financial losses with workers’ demand for a wage hike. At the same time, arriving at a compromise can be done and has to be done. The KMPC management can do this by negotiating […]
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 Center for Trade Union and Human Rights welcomes the report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council that was submitted by Special Rapporteur Irene Khan about her visit to the Philippines from January 23 to February 2, 2024. The report, released this month, rightly captures the Ferdinand Marcos Jr administration’s hypocrisy and inaction […]
The Global Rights Index 2025 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) highlights the hypocrisy of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government on workers’ rights. It affirms the continuing dire situation of workers’ rights in the country, contrary to the government’s promises and claims. For the ninth year in a row, the global labor federation’s workers’ […]
Labor NGO Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is observing closely the workers’ strike, which started more than a month ago, in FOC Transportation Corporation, a company whose buses ply the Lucena-Infanta route in Quezon province. We are calling on the FOC Transportation Corporation to propose a better separation package for workers. The […]
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 […]
Today, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins Filipino workers and the workers of the world in marking International Labor Day by supporting them in demanding the advancement of workers’ labor and human rights. This year is the third Labor Day under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and workers’ rights […]
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 or CTUHR calls on the management of electronics giant Nexperia to respect its Filipino workers’ right to strike and on the Philippine government to protect this right. The workers have legitimate grievances which the Nexperia Philippines Inc management refused to adequately address and which left them with […]
