MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP), the largest workers’ party in the country, and its sister organization the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Labor Center, led government, employer and union representatives and other sectors yesterday in calling for the promotion of safety among workers, including the banning of asbestos in work places during the observance of International Commemoration Day (ICD) and World Day for Safety and Health.
“With the changing world of work, a national occupational safety and health policy, system and program needs a sharper focus to better protect workers in doing their jobs. ILO Convention No. 187 embodies internationally accepted OSH principles and its ratification by the Philippine government will put the country’s OSH policies, systems and programs into a single national framework for coherent actions at all levels,” said former senator and TUCP general secretary Ernesto Herrera.
“We call on the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) – the body tasked to formulate policies affecting workers – to endorse to the President the ratification of Convention No. 187. We want safer work places to protect workers in doing their jobs, which would translate to safer communities,” added TUCP party-list Rep. Raymond Democrito Mendoza.
The TUCP affiliate Associated Labor Unions (ALU) and Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) have joined forces with TUCP in pushing for asbestos ban in the Philippines, the ratification of ILO Convention 162 on Safety in the Use of Asbestos and the development of a National Program for the Elimination of Asbestos Related Diseases (NPEAD). –Nestor Etolle (The Philippine Star)
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
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Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
