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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
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]
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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]
9 Jun 2024 – Six participants (5 women, 2 youth) completed the 11-Saturday Cluster Learning Course (CLiCK 2) training women and young workers for leadership. The now in-person course that started on 10 Feb was an intense program ranging from Time management to trade union administration and finance to Artificial intelligence and unions conducted by a teaching team from NTUC Phl led by President Jhing Ogalinda. The CLiCK courses are now institutional, conducted by the NTUC Phl Leadership Institute (LEADNtI). The next course CLiCk 3 will start in Aug 2024.
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Date posted on June 8, 2024
The updated federation developments are posted in the Ntuc Phl facebook.
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Date posted on June 6, 2024
5 Jun 2024 – FLiRT detected in Philippine, but COVID risk remains low
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Date posted on June 5, 2024
31 May 2024 – Psychological and emotional suffering
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Date posted on June 3, 2024
21 May 2024 – Commentary: We are a step closer to taxing the super-rich
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Date posted on May 22, 2024
19 May 2024 – Commentary: ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour
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Date posted on May 20, 2024
Commentary: ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour
12 May 2024 – Living with robots and AI
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Date posted on May 12, 2024
8 May 2024 – Jobless Filipinos hit 2 million in March 2024 — PSA
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Date posted on May 10, 2024
8 May 2024 – Four die from gas poisoning in Nueva Vizcaya
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Date posted on May 9, 2024
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/05/08/2353458/four-die-gas-poisoning-nueva-vizcaya
8 May 2024 – Philippines: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Red-Tagging’
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Date posted on May 9, 2024
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/08/philippines-supreme-court-rejects-red-tagging
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.
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Date posted on May 5, 2024
2 May 2024 – Hunger highest since 2021 – SWS poll
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Date posted on May 4, 2024
28 May 2024 – Contact centers post slowing attrition rate
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Date posted on May 4, 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Marcos extends service of government contractual workers
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Date posted on April 30, 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Tata Consultancy CEO: chatbots “a year or two” away from replacing almost all call center agents
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Date posted on April 30, 2024
28 Apr 2024 – NTUC Phl Joint celebration of World Safety Day and Labor Day (blended, starting 1:00 pm))
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Date posted on April 28, 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Worker hurt by 4.2 tons of falling metal rods .
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Date posted on April 25, 2024
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/04/25/2350320/worker-hurt-42-tons-falling-metal-rods-
10 Apr 2024 – Filipino workers seen most at risk of AI takeover in Asean
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Date posted on April 11, 2024
Filipino workers seen most at risk of AI takeover in Asean
7 Apr 2024 – Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization.
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Date posted on April 8, 2024
24 Apr 2024 – Fallen steel bars crush closed van, hurt 1 construction worker in Manila
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Date posted on April 5, 2024
1 Apr 2024 – PH hits record-high goods, services exports in 2023 at $104B
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Date posted on April 3, 2024
1 Apr 2024 – BI detects ‘bitbit,’ a new human trafficking scheme
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Date posted on April 1, 2024
18 Mar 2024 – EPA Finalizes Ban and Phase-Out of Chrysotile Asbestos
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Date posted on March 30, 2024
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cd45af30-8692-428b-bfdf-6eab2c38f530
NATIONAL TRADE UNION CENTER (NTUC Phl)
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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…
21 Mar 2024 – AI: Boon or bane?
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Date posted on March 22, 2024
https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2024/03/21/2342043/ai-boon-or-bane
NTUC Phl Programs 2023-2028
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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…
16 Apr 2023 – The Nationally Determined Contribution: Looking back at the Philippines’s climate promise
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Date posted on March 13, 2024
11 Mar 2024 – Philippine investment inflows declined in 2023 — BSP data
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Date posted on March 12, 2024
