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…

NTUC Phl Women Committee Meets, Crafts Agenda for 2019-2021

28 May 2019 – The NTUC Phl Women Committee met on 29 May 2019 in Quezon City to review what has been done and to plan for 2019-2021 activities. Women Chair Milagros Ogalinda chaired the meeting, attended by sixteen representatives from FFF, KMM, PACIWU, NATOW, NLU, NUBE, Obrero Pilipino, TOPPS, federations with existing federation women…

• GDP growth falls to eight-year low of 5.9% in 2019
• Central Luzon police set up at eco-zones to prevent union organizing
• ADB: Manufacturing no longer ‘silver bullet’
• The Climate Conference in Madrid — COP25 — established groundwork for taking definitive next steps …
• Duterte signs law granting gov’t workers’ pay hike
• CHED urged to improve implementation of Free Tuition Law

Forty-six workers were killed, fourteen workers were injured and six missing in 33 serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January-December 2019, an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show. Most of those killed were in Construction (nine) and in Mining (nine). Four workers died, eight were injured and three (corrected) were missing from the earthquake-hit Chuzon supermarket in Pampanga in April.

There were no workplace deaths monitored in Dec 2019.

Truck carrying water for quake survivors crashes, kills helper, hurts driver – 5 Nov 2019 (more…)

• 21 Jan 2019 – “Sa dinami-dami ng tripartite agencies ngaun, ang TEC at TIPC ang inde pa dinadapuan ng sakit na IP virus (itsa-pwera virus po yan).”
• Oct 18, 2019 – “The proposal to extend employee probationary period to 2 years from 6 months is downright unconstitutional and oppressive. xxx”
• Aug 19, 2019 – RAISING ATM SERVICE FEE WILL FURTHER IMPOVERISH ALREADY POOR FILIPINOS Millions of Filipino workers and 4Ps beneficiaries will be affected
• August 18, 2019 – Farmers support Pangilinan’s call to review Rice Tariffication Law – ‘Control influx of imports displacing local rice’

• Central Visayas workers to get pay hike
• DOLE, BSP support e-payment of wages for financial inclusion
• Supreme Court rules: Gov’t nurses should be salary grade 15
• Are wages rising, falling, or stagnating?

• Gov. Cuomo signs historic legislation to stop call center companies from shipping jobs overseas
• IT-BPM industry lowers growth targets amid push to ‘rationalize’ tax perks
• US union seeking joint action with PHL’s BPO workers
• Attention Call Center Agents

• 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
• China: Release Jailed Labour Rights Activists Exercising Rights to Freedom of Association
• Act NOW! – LabourStart

• Study confirms: Any asbestos exposure amount can cause Mesothelioma
• Managing asbestos in food and drink businesses
• EPA announces nearly complete ban on asbestos
• Our homes are full of asbestos. Here’s how to identify it
• Asbestos Exposure in the Workplace
• Asbestos Exposure in the Workplace

• 2 trafficking victims in Iraq return to Philippines
• 18 babae nasagip sa ‘prostitution den’ sa Makati
• Typhoons are forcing these women into the Philippines’ sex trade
• Each year, the Department of State publishes human trafficking global law enforcement data. There were just 11,096 criminal prosecutions for #HumanTrafficking worldwide in 2018. Only 457 of those were for forced labor.
• Quiboloy again sued for human trafficking
• UN migration agency, Hong Kong firm launch blockchain tool to prevent exploitation of domestic workers
• 6 Filipina human trafficking victims intercepted at Iloilo airport

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• TUCP Workers' College Training Program