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4 Nov 2022 – Persecution of labor leaders in Myanmar continues and AFML has lost its third leg
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Date posted on November 6, 2022
4 Nov 2022 – No reprieve for Filipinos as inflation boils to over 10-year high in October
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Date posted on November 6, 2022
No reprieve for Filipinos as inflation boils to over 10-year high in October Ramon Royandoyan – Philstar.com November 4, 2022 | 11:23am MANILA, Philippines (Update 1, 11:23 a.m.) — The prices of key goods and services hit their quickest pace of growth in over a decade in October, forcing Filipinos to continue tightening their spending…
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Date posted on November 6, 2022
November – Nov 2 – International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Nov 9 – World Science Day for Peace and Development Nov 16 – International Day for Tolerance Nov 19 – World Toilet Day Nov 20 – World Children’s Day Nov 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women…
2 Nov 2022 – BI prevents 4 trafficking victims from leaving Philippines
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Date posted on November 3, 2022
26 Oct 2022 – Climate change economic damage may hit 7.6% of 2030 GDP
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Date posted on November 2, 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Call centers seen to generate additional 1 million new jobs by 2028
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Date posted on November 1, 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Philippines on track towards strong recovery
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Date posted on October 30, 2022
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Date posted on October 7, 2022
Nov 19-25 : Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week “Nothing for us in a dead planet.” Continuing Solidarity with CTU Myanmar, trade unions around the world, for democracy in Myanmar, with the daily protests of people in Myanmar against the military coup and continuing oppression. Accept National Unity Government (NUG) of Myanmar.…
6 Oct 2022 – Inflation accelerates to 4-year high at 6.9%
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Date posted on October 6, 2022
2 Oct 2022 – Give cash to the poor, and they’ll squander it? This Nobel laureate has a different opinion
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Date posted on October 2, 2022
Would someone without enough to eat buy a television instead of more food? Yes, and economist Esther Duflo explains why.
16 Sept 2022 – Over 33,000 HCWs contracted COVID-19
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Date posted on September 16, 2022
14 Sept 2022 – IUF — Myanmar : URGENT ACTION to stop military junta
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Date posted on September 15, 2022
14 Sept 2022 – 31% of Pinoys say quality of life worsened – SWS
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Date posted on September 15, 2022
12 Sept 2022 – Philippines extends COVID-19 state of calamity for emergency procurement, allowances
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Date posted on September 13, 2022
11 Sept 2022 – 30% Work from home for BPOs provisionally extended
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Date posted on September 11, 2022
9 Sept 2022 – DILG, PNP rescue 15 minor victims of cybersex crime
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Date posted on September 9, 2022
7 Sept 2022 – CHEd halts Study Now, Pay Later Program
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Date posted on September 9, 2022
27 Aug 2022 – Women getting less complex, lower paying digital jobs – PIDS
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Date posted on August 28, 2022
19 Aug 2022 – Sugar shortage a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Date posted on August 21, 2022
28 July 2022 – NTUC Phl members say unprecedented difficulties spawned by COVID-19 and fallout from the Ukraine crisis and responses by government and employers have not been enough to start recovery from the large reversals in gains from decades of struggle for decent work and against inequality. These challenges from multiple crises, including from climate change, require radical proactive global, national, federation, local union interventions, and programs. They batted for their concerns and advocacies in online meetings with various government agencies.
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Date posted on July 28, 2022
28 July 2022 – NTUC Phl members say unprecedented difficulties spawned by COVID-19 and fallout from the Ukraine crisis and responses by government and employers have not been enough to start recovery from the large reversals in gains from decades of struggle for decent work and against inequality. These challenges from multiple crises, including from…
15 July 2022 – Unemployment is the entire government’s problem
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Date posted on July 16, 2022
12 July 2022 – Filipinos want Marcos gov’t to tame inflation first, boost wages — Pulse
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Date posted on July 13, 2022
Ramon Royandoyan – Philstar.com July 12, 2022 | 2:39pm MANILA, Philippines — Amid harsh economic conditions, majority of Filipinos want the Marcos administration to prioritize taming inflation and boosting wages, according to a new Pulse Asia survey released Tuesday. Results of a nationwide poll of 1,200 adults conducted from June 24 to 27 showed 57% of…
30 June 2022 – DSWD starts distributing P500 monthly subsidy
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Date posted on June 30, 2022
28 June 2022 – World unions report ‘record’ level of labor abuses
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Date posted on June 29, 2022
Agence France-Presse June 28, 2022 | 7:08pm PARIS — Workers faced record abuse of their labor rights in the past year, from union bans to violence and murder, the International Trade Union Confederation said on Tuesday. Physical violence was reported in 50 of 148 countries covered in the group’s Global Rights Index between April 2021…
17 June 2022 – T-BPM firms cite need for WFH setup
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Date posted on June 18, 2022
Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star June 17, 2022 | 12:00am https://www.philstar.com/business/2022/06/17/2188852/it-bpm-firms-cite-need-wfh-setup
Workplace deaths Jan-Mar 2021
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Date posted on April 26, 2022
Ten workers died, 4 injured or ill, in seven* serious work incidents in the Philippines in January-March 2021, an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show. The lockdowns, plant closures, suspension of operations contributed to the ‘low’ level of incidents and deaths. [Read more.] Three demolition workers died, two others injured, after a building in…
2020 Yearender on Deaths Continue …
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Date posted on April 26, 2022
2020 Yearender Sixty workers were killed, six injured or ill, in twelve* serious work incidents in the Philippines in January-December 2020, an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show. One incident in agriculture, another in a mill warehouse, three in construction, one construction worker on the way to work, one March medevac airplane incident, one…
11 Nov 2022 – NTUC Phl Labor Agenda
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Date posted on November 11, 2021
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gojiAxG877wV8t7GPHZ2EJtMRttAJe72ZWiUz4QUGI0/edit
25 June 2021 – NTUC Phl members say difficulties spawned by COVID-19 and inadequate responses by government and employers have led to large reversals in gains from decades of struggle for decent work and against inequality and require proactive national, federation, local union interventions and programs.
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Date posted on June 25, 2021
The two batches of webinars on Employment Security Labor Relations with the theme “Human-Centred Future of Work and Work Relations in the Time of the Pandemic” were conducted with the support of Japan International Labour Foundation (JILAF) in four hours in four afternoons Zoomed from Quezon City on 14-17 and 21-24 June 2021 Connecting…
1 Apr 2021 – Philippines slips in global gender equality
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Date posted on April 1, 2021
by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 1 Apr 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines slipped a notch in the global ranking on gender equality, highlighting the pandemic’s consequence on more Filipino women leaving the labor force.
