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…

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…

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.

• Teachers get perks but no pay hike
• Online lenders face jail term for shaming borrowers – NPC
• Inflation continued downtrend in August
• IN CHARTS: Despite slower growth, employment improves in July 2019
• DOLE admits having no data on contractual workers, fault in regularizing workers
• Bello says gov’t lacks manpower to monitor Pogos, foreign workers
• SC junks petition on same-sex marriage
• Hotel, restaurant employees get 100% of service charge with new law
• No settlement yet on tax perks vs rational incentives in tax reform part 2
• Philippine GDP growth still below target at 5.5% in Q2 2019
• Inflation cools to 2-year low 2.4% in July
• ILO: PH needs 9.5M jobs by 2030

Forty-two workers were killed, thirteen workers were injured and six missing in 30 serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January – September 2019 – an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show.

Most of those killed were in Construction (nine) and in Mining (eight).

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

Driver crushed by van
Rey Galupo (The Philippine Star) – September 2, 2019 – 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — A 45-year-old driver was crushed to death by a shipping container in Paco, Manila yesterday afternoon.
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Worker electrocuted in POGO site [Online gaming site being built in Imus]
August 22, 2019, 7:12 PM
By Anthony Giron

IMUS CITY, Cavite — A worker at the Kawit POGO site was killed Wednesday [Aug 17] after he was electrocuted by an air compressor dynamo.
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• 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’
• Farmers chide Senator Villar for ignoring effects of import undervaluation on rice farmers
• Farmers refute claims rice liberalization has lowered rice prices
• FARMERS DOWNPLAY CLAIMED BENEFITS OF RICE TARIFFICATION LAW ON CONSUMERS
• Union groups push for employment security, decent work

• Are wages rising, falling, or stagnating?
• Govt to seek workers’ input on minimum-wage scheme
• Just 10 per cent of workers receive nearly half of global pay
• MMDA vows to push for hazard pay, benefits of traffic enforcers
• 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

• US union seeking joint action with PHL’s BPO workers
• Call centers may not make it to DOF’s tax perks list
• Skills Every Call Center Agent Should Know To Have An Effective Communication With Customers
• CWA: Verizon’s home-based agent model costs thousands of call center jobs
• Calling the Philippines: Hub for call center jobs sees fast change from tech
• The automation taboo: Let’s talk about jobs
• Attention Call Center Agents

• SBMA: Talks ongoing for takeover of Hanjin
• Hanjin shipyard can become a major global port — Lopez
• Bank creditors convert Hanjin exposure to equity
• 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

• 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

• July 27, 2019 05:50am – SC orders Kentex CFO to pay P1.4M to 57 surviving workers – The Supreme Court has affirmed the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) decision ordering the chief finance officer of Kentex Manufacturing Corp. to pay more than P1.44 million to 57 surviving workers found to have been underpaid after the Valenzuela City slipper factory burned down in 2015. – Jerome Aning, Inquirer Mobile

• 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
• The ways of asbestos
• Asbestos Exposure in the Workplace

• 2 Chinese nabbed for trafficking; 6 Vietnamese women rescued
• Duterte to study proposal to create anti-child trafficking body
• Does AI have the solution to climate change and human trafficking? Imagine an AI-driven software platform that can power next generation of civic participation — around the world By Eileen Brown for Social Business | August 23, 2018
• Woman gets 21 years for online child trafficking Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star) – June 1, 2019
• Human traffickers operating in Pasay, Pampanga – DFA Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) – May 19, 2019
• 8 Chinese held for fake cigarettes, human trafficking Ramon Efren Lazaro (The Philippine Star) – May 18, 2019
• 17 women, including 8 minors, rescued from trafficking ring GMA News April 26, 2019
• 2 trafficking victims arrive in the Philippines Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star) – April 21, 2019
• Woman held for online trafficking Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star) – April 18, 2019
• Computer technician gets life term for online trafficking in Pampanga Jun A. Malig Published 1:40 PM, April 13, 2019

• 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