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11 Jun 2024 – Nearly a third of jobs ‘negatively exposed’ to AI while women and younger workers face biggest risk, Department of Finance report finds | Irish Independent

Published by rudy Date posted on June 12, 2024

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/nearly-a-third-of-jobs-negatively-exposed-to-ai-while-women-and-younger-workers-face-biggest-risk-department-of-finance-report-finds/a1560208605.html

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11 Jun 2024 – Worker dead, 7 others hurt when lightning hit them in Eastern Samar

Published by rudy Date posted on June 12, 2024

Worker dead, 7 others hurt when lightning hit them in Eastern Samar

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6 June 2024 – After 12 ‘shocking’ months of broken heat records, scientists say Earth is 4 years away from crossing 1.5 degrees of heating BYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JAMEY KEATEN June 6, 2024 at 12:24 AM GMT+8. UN Secretary General António Guterres called for new taxes on fossil fuel companies as global temperatures continue to soar. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called Wednesday for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, decrying them as the “godfathers of climate chaos.”

Published by rudy Date posted on June 10, 2024
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9 Jun 2024 – Google is using AI to answer your health questions. Should you trust it? [But an undetermined number of people in the Philippines have used Dr. Google for “medical advice” and medication for many years before this AI article. – Rudy]

Published by rudy Date posted on June 9, 2024

Google is using AI to answer your health questions. Should you trust it? Experts say the new feature may offer dubious advice in response to personal health queries. [But an undetermined number of people in the Philippines have used Dr. Google for “medical advice” and medication for many years before his AI article. – Rudy]

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The updated federation developments are posted in the Ntuc Phl facebook.

Published by rudy Date posted on June 6, 2024
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5 Jun 2024 – FLiRT detected in Philippine, but COVID risk remains low

Published by rudy Date posted on June 5, 2024
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31 May 2024 – Psychological and emotional suffering

Published by rudy Date posted on June 3, 2024
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21 May 2024 – Commentary: We are a step closer to taxing the super-rich

Published by rudy Date posted on May 22, 2024
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19 May 2024 – Commentary: ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour

Published by rudy Date posted on May 20, 2024

Commentary: ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour

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12 May 2024 – Living with robots and AI

Published by rudy Date posted on May 12, 2024
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8 May 2024 – Jobless Filipinos hit 2 million in March 2024 — PSA

Published by rudy Date posted on May 10, 2024
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8 May 2024 – Four die from gas poisoning in Nueva Vizcaya

Published by rudy Date posted on May 9, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/05/08/2353458/four-die-gas-poisoning-nueva-vizcaya

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8 May 2024 – Philippines: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Red-Tagging’

Published by rudy Date posted on May 9, 2024

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/08/philippines-supreme-court-rejects-red-tagging

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2 May 2024 – NTUC Phl held a Joint celebration of International Safety Day (April 28) and Labor Day (May 1), on 28 April 2024, online, from Quezon City. The celebration revolved around two themes: Theme 1 on OSH as ILO fundamental principle, and Theme 2 on Negotiating ILO C190 provisions in CBAs. Some 77 trade union officers connected from different places in the country.

Published by rudy Date posted on May 5, 2024
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2 May 2024 – Hunger highest since 2021 – SWS poll

Published by rudy Date posted on May 4, 2024
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28 May 2024 – Contact centers post slowing attrition rate

Published by rudy Date posted on May 4, 2024
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26 Apr 2024 – Marcos extends service of government contractual workers

Published by rudy Date posted on April 30, 2024
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30 Apr 2024 – Tata Consultancy CEO: chatbots “a year or two” away from replacing almost all call center agents

Published by rudy Date posted on April 30, 2024
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28 Apr 2024 – NTUC Phl Joint celebration of World Safety Day and Labor Day (blended, starting 1:00 pm))

Published by rudy Date posted on April 28, 2024
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25 Apr 2024 – Worker hurt by 4.2 tons of falling metal rods .

Published by rudy Date posted on April 25, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/04/25/2350320/worker-hurt-42-tons-falling-metal-rods-

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10 Apr 2024 – Filipino workers seen most at risk of AI takeover in Asean

Published by rudy Date posted on April 11, 2024

Filipino workers seen most at risk of AI takeover in Asean

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7 Apr 2024 – Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization.

Published by rudy Date posted on April 8, 2024
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24 Apr 2024 – Fallen steel bars crush closed van, hurt 1 construction worker in Manila

Published by rudy Date posted on April 5, 2024
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1 Apr 2024 – PH hits record-high goods, services exports in 2023 at $104B

Published by rudy Date posted on April 3, 2024
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1 Apr 2024 – BI detects ‘bitbit,’ a new human trafficking scheme

Published by rudy Date posted on April 1, 2024
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18 Mar 2024 – EPA Finalizes Ban and Phase-Out of Chrysotile Asbestos

Published by rudy Date posted on March 30, 2024

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cd45af30-8692-428b-bfdf-6eab2c38f530

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NATIONAL TRADE UNION CENTER (NTUC Phl)

Published by rudy Date posted on March 28, 2024

NATIONAL TRADE UNION CENTER (NTUC Phl) NTUC Phl, now with 20 national unions and federations, with declared 300,000 members, was founded in Quezon City on 18 August 2018. [DOLE Registration No. 11933 (TUC)-LC] 40% of NTUC Phl members are women; 60% men. 30% of members are young. (2023) NTUC Phl operates in all regions of…

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21 Mar 2024 – AI: Boon or bane?

Published by rudy Date posted on March 22, 2024

https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2024/03/21/2342043/ai-boon-or-bane

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NTUC Phl Programs 2023-2028

Published by rudy Date posted on March 17, 2024

NTUC Phl Programs 2023-2028 o Trade union leadership (11 Saturdays CLiCk program by the LEADNtI) o Artificial Intelligence and Unions o Collective Bargaining for Transitions and Equality o Building Union Resources o Labor Law Revision/Amendments o Workers Education o The Future of Work Monitoring Core Standards, Responsible Business Conduct, Human Rights Due Diligence o Global…

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16 Apr 2023 – The Nationally Determined Contribution: Looking back at the Philippines’s climate promise

Published by rudy Date posted on March 13, 2024
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March 2025

It’s women’s month!

“Support women every day of the year!”

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!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos

Time to support & empower survivors.
Time to spark a global conversation.
Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month

Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and Made-in-the-Philippines
Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week

Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
Mar 4— Employee Appreciation Day
Mar 15 — World Consumer Rights Day
Mar 18 — Global Recycling Day
Mar 21 — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar 23 — International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
Mar 25 — International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar 27 — Earth Hour

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