Over 100 participants (mostly women) connecting from home, their union offices and safe special meeting places to participate, rated the four hours, four afternoons webinars highly.
In his report, President Rodolfo Capoquian cited both bright and grim developments as the pandemic sizzles. “Andami nating pinagdaanan sa loob ng isang taon.”
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. 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…
HIGHER WAGES, NO MORE ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, END INEQUALITY!
15 June 2018 — “HIGHER WAGES, NO MORE ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, END INEQUALITY!” were the recurring themes in the National Trade Union Conferences on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations with the theme: “Promoting Real Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, Employment and Decent Work” held in Quezon City on 9-10 May 2018 and in…
TUCP YOUTH DECLARE “JIED, THE FUTURE OF WORK WE WANT!”
Dec 16, 2017 – “Just, Inclusive, Equitable, and Decent: that’s the future of work we want!” declared young workers and trade unionists at the conclusion of the TUCP National Youth Conference on 13-14 December 2017. Read more.
Uninclusive, Precarious, a virtual form Modern Slavery Workers’ mobilization against contractualization and precarious work 6.28.2016, Manila. — Some 326 union leaders, members and their families –perched along the historical wall of Intramuros, under close watch by a throng of police –bellowed a unified cry for justice. They called for an end to exploitation propagated by…
35% of women – 818 million women globally – over the age of 15 have experienced sexual or physical violence at home, in their communities or in the workplace. (Source: World Health Organisation)
Sixty workers were killed, six injured or ill, in twelve* serious work incidents in the Philippines in January-December 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, one October mining mudslide, one October post-installing electrocution accident, one construction accident.
The lockdowns, plant closures, suspension of operations contributed to the ‘low’ level of incidents and deaths.
No media reports of any medical frontliner deaths have been reported since August 29. [This was the last media report. – 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.]
Two construction workers were buried alive and two injured when excavated soil and debris fell on them while they were installing the steel frame foundation of a hotel in Legaspi, Albay on Dec 15 (Philstar)
Two internet service firm workers died when electrocuted while installing a concrete post in Albay on Oct 17. (Inquirer Mobile)
A heavy equipment operator died in a mudslide in a mining pit in Antique on Oct 2. (ABS-CBN News)
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.
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.
Monthly Observances: Women’s Role in History Month Weekly Observances: Week 1: Environmental Week
Women’s Week Week 3: Philippine Industry and Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week Daily Observances: March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day
National Women’s Day
Mar 2 — Employee Appreciation Day
Mar 15 — Consumer Rights Day
Mar 18 — Global Recycling Day
Mar 21 — International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar 25 — International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic
Slave Trade
Mar 27 — Earth Hour
25 November is the International Day to End Violence against Women, kicking off #16Days of Activism.
Time to support & empower survivors.
Time to spark a global conversation.
Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!
The 16 Days of Activism kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day.
