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…

BUILDING COMPANY MECHANISMS AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) TARGETED BY NTUC Phl AFFILIATES

14 December 2018 — Participants in the National Trade Union Center (NTUC Philippines) tripartite culmination activity on “Strengthening the Campaign for an ILO Convention and Planning Enterprise Level Campaigns on GBV in the World of Work” in Quezon City on 14 December 2018, reported on successes in the GBV campaign at the international and national…

NTUC PHILIPPINES AFFILIATES IDENTIFY, PLEDGE TO PUSH, WIDE-RANGING ACTIVITIES AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) AT WORK.

  28 November 2018 — Participants in the National Trade Union Center (NTUC Philippines) one-day workshop on “Strengthening the Campaign for an ILO Convention and Planning Enterprise Level Campaigns on GBV in the World of Work” in Quezon City on 21 November 2018, identified and  pledged to push wide-ranging activities against gender-based violence (GBV) at…

NATIONAL TRADE UNION CENTER PHILIPPINES HOLDS FOUNDING CONVENTION, GETS DOLE REGISTRATION.

Eighteen federations formed the National Trade Union Center (NTUC Philippines) on 18 August 2018.

Brother Rodolfo Capoquian was elected President. Other officers are General Secretary Roland de la Cruz, Treasurer Milagros Ogalinda, Deputy General Secretary Dave Diwa, Assistant Treasurer Jesus Exequiel (Exie) Nidea. The Chairs of the Women Committee (Sister Florencia Cabatingan) and of the Youth Committee (Brother Wilmark Ramos) were provisionally elected to the Executive Board.

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…

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.

May 18-19, 2017 — “Enforce constitutional and labor code provisions on security of tenure; scrap D.O. 174, s.2017!” was the thundering call of some 86 union leaders, members, and workers in the National Conference on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations held in Manila on 18-19 May 2017 with the theme: “Promoting Inclusive and Sustainable…

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.

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• Union groups push for employment security, decent work
• ‘SOT bill will still allow contractualization’
• ‘Lack of industrialization: Government’s failure’
• Trade gap widens in March as exports drop for 5th month
• Inflation slows to 3% in April
• Over 1.3 M Filipinos to benefit from new law for first-time jobseekers annually — Angara
• Duterte’s jobs record
• WE SUPPORT LUNTIANG PILIPINAS PARTY LIST BECAUSE OF OUR SHARED ADVOCACIES
• ‘Government has no money for P10-billion rice fund’

Twenty-four workers were killed, thirteen workers were injured and six missing in 18 serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January – May 2019 – an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show.

Most of those killed were in Mining (seven) and Construction (four).

Four workers died, eight were injured and three (corrected) were missing from the earthquake-hit Chuzon supermarket in Pampanga.

Lineman dead in fall from tree

URBIZTONDO, Pangasinan, Philippines — A television lineman died after he fell from a tree while installing cables in Barangay Dalanguiring in this town on Tuesday.
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Brothers found dead inside Surigao del Norte Tunnel

by Richmond Hinayon, ABS-CBN News, May 29, 2019

TAGANAAN, Surigao Del Norte – The bodies of two miners were recovered inside a tunnel at a private mining site in Sitio Duyungan, Barangay Laurel on Tuesday afternoon. (more…)

• Union groups push for employment security, decent work
• ‘Government has no money for P10-billion rice fund’
• Manifesto of FFF and FFFC on Villar
• NTUC Philippines Cautions Against Tax, Tax, Tax!
• The Way Forward: Workers Need the Rule of Law
• Hanjin workers in Subic to go on strike

• Focus on ‘just’ living wage rather than minimum salary – senators
• PSA family budget ‘miserable estimate’
• IMF attacks on minimum wages are misguided and destructive
• Aquino proposes minimum take-home pay for gov’t employees
• Don’t blame robots for low wages
• Group seeks P900 minimum wage for laborers
• Corporate America is suppressing wages for many workers
• Labor chief says approved pay hike ‘too low’ for workers to cope

• Skills Every Call Center Agent Should Know To Have An Effective Communication With Customers
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• The automation taboo: Let’s talk about jobs
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• The workers who answer your customer-service calls
• Attention Call Center Agents

• Enrique Razon, creditor banks in talks over Hanjin shipyard takeover
• ONGOING: Displaced workers of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co.-Phils. Inc. hold a protest in front of the main office of the Dept. of Labor and Employment. |
• Hanjin ex-workers march to DoLE to seek dialogue over benefits
• Why China’s eyeing of bankrupt Philippine shipyard sets off alarms in maritime Southeast Asia
• Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) urged Hanjin to return money from workers deducted from training bond
• Philippines’ largest shipyard to close in blow to Hanjin rescue
• DOLE advises Hanjin workers: Don’t resign
• Local banks grapple with biggest default in PH corporate history

• China: Release Jailed Labour Rights Activists Exercising Rights to Freedom of Association

• AMAPO-TUCP is in the midst of a bitter union organizing campaign in Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp. Philippines in Subic Bay. Please send protest letters …
• Save two Indian nationals, Subramaniam and Chelladurai sentenced to death in Qatar. Please sign the online petition https://www.change.org/p/save-two-indian-nationals-subramaniam-and-chelladurai-sentenced-to-death-at-qatar
• Uber drivers demand higher pay in nationwide protest
• South Korea: Release jailed trade unionists, respect workers’ rights
• Call for solidarity action: Sign-up petition on accident at Tampaco Foils Ltd, Bangladesh
• Act NOW! – LabourStart

• Kentex fire victims’ kin continue court battle

• EPA announces nearly complete ban on asbestos
• Our homes are full of asbestos. Here’s how to identify it
• Asbestos Exposure in the Workplace
• The ways of asbestos
• What you need to know about asbestos
• Asbestos Exposure in the Workplace

• More job fairs 2019
• Job Fairs 2019
• Job Fair 2018, Trinoma Activity Center, May 8-9, 2018
• Job Fair at Trinoma, April 24-25, 2018
• DOLE's Indicative Calendar of Events/Activities For job fair listing
• TUCP Workers' College Training Program