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.

• Hotel, restaurant employees get 100% of service charge with new law
• Philippine GDP growth still below target at 5.5% in Q2 2019
• ILO: PH needs 9.5M jobs by 2030
• Robots to invade PH industries, but won’t be terminators—DTI
• PSA report shows 127 listed targets under PDP unlikely to be met in 2022
• Pernia: Security of tenure bill must be fair to both employers, workers
• Review of rice tariff law pushed
• ‘Right conditions’ necessary for next round of EU-Phl FTA talks
• Inflation slows down to 2.7% in June 2019
• Robots to take 20 million jobs, worsening inequality: study
• Despite robust growth, income inequality widening — NEDA
• It’s good jobs, stupid … which are “xxx the best way to generate shared prosperity xxx.”

Thirty-seven workers were killed, thirteen workers were injured and six missing in 26 serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January – July 2019 – an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show.

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

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

2 lalaki natagpuang patay sa loob ng tangke ng tubig
Karren Canon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 21 2019 07:52 AM |
Updated as of Jul 21 2019 07:09 PM

Natagpuang patay ang 2 lalaki sa loob ng isang tangke ng tubig sa bayan ng San Juan, Batangas nitong Sabado ng hapon.
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Cement bucket falls from construction site, kills laborer
(Philstar.com) – July 14, 2019 – 2:45pm

MANILA, Philippines — A cable of a tower crane carrying a bucket filled with cement broke Sunday morning at a construction site in Manila leaving one laborer dead, according to the Manila Public Information Office.
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• 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
• ‘Government has no money for P10-billion rice fund’

• 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
• Don’t blame robots for low wages

• 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
• How AI is transforming the contact center
• Attention Call Center Agents

• 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
• Philippines’ largest shipyard to close in blow to Hanjin rescue

• 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

• 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