NTUC in the News

DAVAO CITY Aug.2 –The Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association, Inc. (PBGEA) in partnership with the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) broke ground for the two-classroom building donation to Elias P. Dacudao Gumalang School of Home Industries at Purok 1, Brgy. Gumalang, Baguio District, Davao City last July 28, 2011.

The Cotabato Government Employees Association (COTGEM) recently had affiliated to the Association of Labor Unions- Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) in a Memorandum of Affiliation ceremony conducted last Friday, July 1, 2011 at Dr. Rosario P. Diaz building Amas, Kidapawan City.

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 1, 2011) – The Associated Labor Unions – Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) and the Cotabato Provincial Government Employees Association (COTGEM) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Friday in Kidapawan City in Mindanao.

DESPITE its meeting with Sugar Regulatory Administrator Gina Bautista Martin, Sugar Watch on Wednesday will push through with its rally, which will launch the boycott of Coca-Cola products.

Manila, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) yesterday called on the Aquino government and employers to liberate workers from “labor woes” in celebration of today’s Independence Day.

MANILA — The Aquino government is willing to support the initiatives being pursued by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines to strengthen the entrepreneurial capabilities of the employees to improve their income.

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) A labor group on Friday urged the government to approve the P75 across-the-board wage increase for Metro Manila workers and stressed that anything less than that is an “insult.”

Security guard si Manuel Abasola. Minimum wage earner siya at nagtitiyaga siyang mangupahan dito sa isang napakaliit na kuwarto. Sa P10,000 buwanang sahod, P5,000 lang ang naiuuwi niya dahil sa mga kaltas at utang.

MANILA, Philippines—The country’s top employers can afford to grant a pay increase to minimum-wage workers, President Benigno Aquino III said Thursday.

A DAY after insisting on their demand for a P75 adjustment in the minimum wage in Metro Manila, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines yesterday criticized the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for placing a ceiling of P25 in the possible wage adjustment.

MANILA, Philippines –  Organized labor rejected yesterday the proposal of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to grant a P25 increase in the daily salary of workers in Metro Manila, while employers only offered a P13 wage hike.

THE central bank on Tuesday warned an increase in the minimum wage beyond P25 a day would result in higher commodity prices.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said that the National Capital Region Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board will meet anew on May 9 to deliberate on how much and in what form would the wage increase be given after both the government and the private sectors failed to come out a decision in yesterday’s meeting.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor group, said workers would not abandon their demand for financial relief on Labor Day.

President Aquino, who is lately besieged by falling survey ratings and threats of massive protest actions from a disgruntled labor sector, ordered the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to implement a P25 wage increase for private employees in Metro Manila, a business sector source said.

THE government agency that sets minimum wage rates on Wednesday announced it will be holding public hearings on a new pay increase for Metro Manila’s workers, and even though the last increase of P22 a day was granted less than a year ago, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid ongoing changes to the government’s joint-venture guidelines and issues surrounding the build-operate-transfer (BOT) implementing rules and regulations, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) gave assurances on Thursday that the agency can already approve public-private partnership (PPP) projects in only 6 months.

The Philippines has a surplus of nurses and it would be better if government encouraged their deployment abroad and discouraged the deployment of domestic helpers who are more prone to abuse, recommended the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP).

MANILA, Philippines – Workers from Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Mimaropa are unlikely to get the much-awaited salary increase this year.

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Labor officials must prioritize at least 6,000 Filipino workers forced out of Iraq in a program to hire 10,000 workers in Guam for the expansion there of US military facilities.

MANILA, Philippines – Labor leader Ernesto Herrera claimed on Wednesday that reports of massive termination of Filipino maids in Hong Kong are “grossly exaggerated”.

THE sale of the 982.1-megawatt Agus and Pulangi hydropower complex might not push through as originally envisioned in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira), as the Department of Energy (DOE) is looking to use the power plant to balance the interests of consumers and potential investors in Mindanao’s power-generation sector.

As the Aquino government frenziedly identifies measures to raise at least P325 billion to cover its expected deficit for 2010, a major labor bloc urge it to investigate firms found underpaying their workers and violating other general labor standards.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has expressed its support for a new policy that makes Pag-IBIG membership a requisite for departing OFWs.

SAYS LABOR GROUP MANILA, Philippines—A United States Senate bill seeking to discourage the transfer of American contact center jobs to foreign locations is not expected to adversely affect the booming business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines, a Filipino labor leader said in a news release Sunday.

I don’t expect Noynoy Aquino to be the savior of the Philippines but like many Filipinos I expect him and his presidency to offer new hope.

MANILA, Philippines – The party-list group Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) will push for a P75-a-day legislated wake increase in the incoming 15th Congress.

We in the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) are urging President-elect Benigno Aquino 3rd to persuade American lawmakers to pass a bill that seeks to revive the textile and apparel trade between the US and the Philippines, and create thousands of new jobs in both countries.

The honorable congressmen of the House of Representatives needed no more than two minutes to ratify a constitutionally mandated and long overdue bill which people have been awaiting for more than 14 years and they blew it big time.