Federation Developments

by Vito Barcelo, Manila Standard, Nov 16, 2017 Various labor and clean air advocates appealed to the Department of Labor and Employment to immediately act on complaints against various steel factories in the country that continue to violate occupational safety and health hazard laws.

by PhilippineNews, Apr 29, 2017 By MARLLY ROME C. BONDOC, GMA News A labor group on Saturday expressed dismay at President Rodrigo Duterte for “breaking tradition” and his supposed failure to fulfill his promises ahead of the celebration of Labor Day on Monday.

By Recto Mercene, Businessmirror, Apr 3, 2017 A FEDERATION of labor unions is poised to file graft charges against ranking officials of a state-owned printing company and its private partner for allegedly entering into a partnership agreement with a private corporation without legal authority and squandering billions of pesos on an outsourcing scheme grossly disadvantageous…

21 MARCH 2017 The National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines and its allied labor federations, workers organizations, small farmer’s organizations and agrarian reform beneficiary organizations representing more or less 300,000 sugar workers and their families stand in firm solidarity with the other stakeholders of the sugar industry in condemning the…

Malacanang announced last week that President Duterte has approved the long awaited proposal to increase by P2,000 the SSS pension, in two gives, P1,000 this year (2017) and P1,000 in 2022 when he leaves office. PUDU30 also adjusted the MSC cap from P16k to P20k. He also plans to increase SSS contribution by 1.5% starting…

2.24.2016 Calauag, Quezon. — Over 200 small coconut farmers in Quezon Province participated in a dialogue led by the Federation of Free Farmers and its President Leonardo Montemayor, to discuss coconut levy issues, programs, and projects for food security and modernizations. Coconut farmers’ leaders expressed many and lingering problems in the coconut industry, including farmer’s…

8.21.2015, UP SOLAIR, Quezon City. In its 50th National Convention, over 200 national and regional union leaders and members of the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP) –the biggest federation of organized labor in the sugar industry –called on government to pursue “marangal na hanapbuhay at kaunlarang pantay-pantay” (decent…

30 July 2015, Manila –TUCP-affiliate Obrero Pilipino (OP) gears up for new collective bargaining negotiations after winning two certification elections covering some seven hundred workers in Laguna Technopark, a privately-run special economic zone in South Luzon.

By Gina G. Macabaya 06 May 2014, Baguio City. –TOPPS (Teachers Organization of the Philippine Public Sector) held its 5th Triennial Congress on 3-6 May 2014 in Baguio City. Some 58 TOPPS leaders and members from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao attended the program. The congress started with a caucus on women facilitated by Sis Wilhelmina…

By Joseph Jovellanos 25 May 2014, Manila. –SMP-NATOW (Samahang Manggagawang Pilipino – National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers) held its 13th National Convention and 43rd founding anniversary on 25-27 May 2013 in Manila, with the theme “United, Great, and Free”. Some 180 leaders and members from various education institutions and offices all over the…

BACOLOD CITY, Aug. 28 (PIA) – Some 400 labor leaders, youth, and women members representing 50 unions from Mindanao, Visayas, and Luzon and 200 Bacolod-Negros members of the BDO Employees Association (BDOEA-NUBE), in separate meetings here called for decent work, equitable growth, protection and creation of employment, respect for the freedom to join unions of…

MANILA, Philippines – Bank workers want to be part of the decision-making process regarding bank closures, takeovers and liquidations.

From more than a year of deadlock, the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was finally signed between the management and Valle Verde Country Club Inc. Employees Union-LIKHA-TUCP. In the photo are (from left) General Manager Erlinda Tanjangco; Ernesto Villaluna, Valle Verde Country Club President; NCMB Conciliator-Mediator Angelita Narvaez; Bro. Jesus Villamor, Union President; Atty. Florante Yambot,…