NTUC in the News

VICTIMS of pirates may sue their employers for damages, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday, as it demanded better protection for Filipino sailors in Africa.

AFP – A union representing the Philippines’ 350,000 merchant seamen on Saturday demanded better protection for the sailors in Africa and warned freed victims of pirates may sue their employers for damages.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the global financial crisis and the massive layoffs in the country, more workers are still buying their own homes.

MANILA, Philippines – Around 30,000 jobseekers flocked to the Labor Day job fair, said to be the biggest in history, held yesterday at the SMX Convention Center at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City, as the government announced a package of non-wage benefits for workers to help them cope with the prevailing global financial…

MANILA, Philippines – New homes, jobs and livelihood grants await Filipino workers on Labor Day.

Anakpawis party-list Rep. Rafael Mariano yesterday assailed Malacañang for its continuing “no wage hike policy,” stressing “at this time of worsening economic crisis, it is far more just for the working class to demand a wage increase.”

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s largest labor group yesterday pushed for the granting of non-monetary benefits as a Labor Day gift for workers nationwide.

Cheers, boos greet Palparan MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) Twenty-five of the 32 new partylist representatives took their oath of office before Speaker Prospero Nograles at the House of Representatives session hall on Tuesday.

STIMULUS spending by countries employing its workers is helping the Philippines maintain its remittances despite the global economic downturn, a labor leader said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday said the number of Filipino nurses who have sought employment in the United States during the first quarter of 2009 has gone down by 10.5 percent.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid protests and condemnation, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday proclaimed 32 new party-list groups, paving the way for the inclusion of a fourth Arroyo in the House of Representatives.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec), convening as National Board of Canvassers, on Friday proclaimed 32 party-list groups to occupy congressional seats.

The government cannot stop employers from laying off workers to cushion the impact of the world economic crisis, the labor department said yesterday.

Cebu City – Workers in Cebu should not expect another round of wage increases during the Labor Day celebration on May 1, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Region 7 said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Nineteen party-list groups that lost in the 2007 elections can now enter Congress after the Supreme Court (SC) voided the two-percent threshold in the distribution of party-list seats.

CEBU, Philippines – In celebration of its 55th founding anniversary, Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines yesterday urged the workers to be vigilant and prepared to face the worsening global economic crisis.

Fear of losing their jobs has forced a growing number of migrant Filipino workers to save more, and lessen their home-bound remittances, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said. The TUCP now expects remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to fall by 5 percent to 10 percent this year, down from a prior…

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) warned the government yesterday that more workers are expected to lose their jobs due to higher cost of electricity.

FOR fear of losing their jobs abroad, more Filipinos working overseas have cancelled orders here for new homes and cars and will send less money for their amortization, a major trade union group said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) warned yesterday of deeper economic difficulty as a growing number of Filipino workers are getting laid off from their jobs abroad.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) urged regulators to compel pre-need companies to account for the estimated billions of pesos they hoarded from lapsed and forfeited plan contracts as well as in-force plans voluntarily surrendered by investors.

MANILA, Philippines – Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor group, reported yesterday that they might defer plans to seek wage hike for minimum wage earners nationwide because of the global economic crisis.

MANILA, Philippines – Lots of jobs and other incentives await workers on Labor Day.

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of jobs await Filipino workers in South Korea and Canada, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

SEN. Edgardo Angara over the weekend stressed the need to immediately amend certain provisions of the Labor Code to increase national productivity and employment.

The country’s biggest labor group yesterday urged the government to make available its non-performing assets for the use of 500,000 Filipino workers who have been laid off or about to lose their jobs in the wake of the global financial crisis.

THE Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group and Federation of Philippine Industries will bond with 22 labor organizations in a precedent-setting move that sets aside political colors to support the government in its all-out war against rampant smuggling.

The global financial crisis has taken its toll even among the country’s biggest firms, a labor group said.

Amid the growing number of workers displaced due to the global economic crisis, the country’s largest labor group is providing assistance to retrenched workers

MANILA, Philippines–Despite the lingering global economic crisis, major Philippine business process outsourcing (BPO) providers, mostly contact center operators, have been aggressively recruiting new staff, a labor group said on Sunday.