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)
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
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:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
June 6: Migrant Workers Day
June 19: Filipino Youth Day
June 25: Day of the Filipino Seafarer
