18 Aug 2020 – NTUC Phl celebrates its 2nd Anniversary online, fully compliant with quarantine protocols.  In his report, President Rodolfo Capoquian cited both bright and grim developments as the pandemic sizzles. “Andami nating pinagdaanan sa loob ng isang taon.” 

15 Dec 2019 – NTUC Phl holds Dec 2019 Women and Youth Assemblies, reviews progress on Action Agendas

The NTUC Phl Women and Youth Committees, in Joint Assemblies, met on 14 December 2019 in Quezon City to review progress in their respective Action Agendas and to plan next steps. The Assemblies (1) discussed progress in their respective Agendas approved on August 18, 2019; (2) heard the report of the NTUC Phl (training team)…

18 Aug 2019 – NTUC Phl popped poppers at the opening of its Leaders Meeting and first anniversary celebrations in Quezon City.

18 Aug 2019 – NTUC Phl popped poppers at the opening of its Leaders Meeting and first anniversary celebrations in Quezon City. President Rodolfo Capoquian cited the many center activities since NTUC Phl’s founding convention on 18 August 2018 : national, federation and local -level GBV workshops in 2018 through 2019; two successful national JILAF/NTUC…

15 June 2019 – LIVING WAGES, REAL END TO ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, A DECENT FUTURE OF WORK, END INEQUALITY! -JILAF/NTUC Phl Workshops

LIVING WAGES, REAL END TO ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, A DECENT FUTURE OF WORK, END INEQUALITY! 15 June 2019 — “LIVING WAGES, REAL END TO ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, A DECENT FUTURE OF WORK, END INEQUALITY!” were the resounding themes in the National Trade Union Seminars on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations…

• 20 Nov 2020 – Finance secretary C Dominguez joins call for climate justice
• PopCom moves to curb rise in teen pregnancy
• OFW remittances up 9% to $2.89 billion in September
• 10 Nov 2020 – Philippine economy shrinks 11.5% in Q3, easing from record
• Economic contraction in Q2 worse at 16.9%
• Global recovery ‘running out of steam’

Fifty-five workers were killed, four injured or ill, in nine* serious work incidents in the Philippines in January-August 2020, an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show.

One incident in agriculture, another in a mill warehouse, three in  construction, one construction worker on the way to work,  one March medevac airplane incident, one June quarantine incident, one July incident in sand quarrying.

Thirty-nine medical frontliners — 26 doctors, 6 nurses, 4 admin and 3 other staff staff — died working in different hospitals fighting CoVid-19. Two additional frontliners (one nurse, one doctor) died in August.

A welder working in his shop in Bolinao, Pangasinan died when he accidentally touched a live wire. Another worker died after he touched a live wire while working at a construction site in Enrile, Cagayan on Aug 22.

A PNP doctor died and two other officers from the national police medical reserve force were hospitalized after inhaling a disinfectant solution used to clean quarantine facilities in Metro Manila. (June 7, 2020 report)

Three crew, three medical personnel died in the medevac airplane incident in March.

Read more in Deaths Continue

SHAI (@shailagarde) tweeted at 5:09 pm on Tue, May 26, 2020:
Breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths among healthcare workers as of May 25:
Nurses: 879 (4 deaths)
Doctors: 682 (25 deaths)
Nursing Assistant: 149
Medical Technologist: 89
Radiologic Technologist: 45
Non-medical staff: 304 (2 deaths) | @gmanews
(https://twitter.com/shailagarde/status/1265208491519561733?s=03)

• 10 Apr 2020 – Representations on CoVid-19 of NTUC Phl and its affiliates
• 6 Mar 2020 – Farmers blast Agriculture Secretary for downplaying impact of rice liberalization on farmers
• 1 Mar 2020 – Staunch champion of labor rights – Ruben Torres and NTUC Phl
• 15 Feb 2020 – NTUC Phl says compliance certificate and/or clearance on compliance with certain laws should be a requirement for granting loans or financial aid to private individuals or companies

• 10 Oct 2020 – Senators, workers hit plan to defer 13th month payment
• DOLE eyeing to allow delay in payout of 13th-month bonus by ‘distressed’ firms
• 27 Aug 2020 – Philippines among countries with lowest average wage
• PH’s P15,200 average salary among lowest in 110 countries – survey

• 20 Nov 2020 – IBPAP expects -0.5% growth in revenues as PH economy likely to contract by over 5.5%
• 15 Oct 2020 – Amazon Ring call center workers in Philippines ‘scared’ to go to work during pandemic
• 29 Jul 2020 – What other industries can learn from call centers
• Attention Call Center Agents

• No to nuclear weapons, let’s reduce military spending! Sign the petition here.

• The gig economy fails to share the wealth with workers. Here’s how we fix it May 9, 2019
• Justice for PMP labour organizer, Leonides “Dennis” Sequeña, shot by an unidentified gunman while attending a workers meeting in Cavite on 2 June 2019
• Act NOW! – LabourStart

• Woman gets 40 years for online abuse of kin
• After ‘pastillas,’ Senate panel probes human trafficking
• Pinay wins trafficking case vs Malaysian employers
• Filipina trafficking victim’s employers convicted in Malaysia
• Two women convicted for online sexual exploitation of children in Cebu City

• Some 4,000 jobs available for displaced Filipino workers
• Trabahanap: A platform for jobseekers
• DOLE's Indicative Calendar of Events/Activities For job fair listing
• TUCP Workers' College Training Program