Labor Groups Zooming in on Asbestos
Asbestos ban bills
The call to pass the bill banning asbestos at the Senate took center stage with the setting up of an email campaign urging the Senate Committee on Trade and Commerce to hold meetings and consultations. Union members and supporters of the ban can send emails to Senator Manny Villar as the Committee Chair at http://tinyurl.com/ban-asbestos in the TUCP website. A parallel email campaign at the House Committee on Ecology would help advance the legislative process.
Meetings with the Committee Chairs – Senator Manny Villar and Representative Dan Fernandez at the Senate and the House, respectively – were being arranged to hand over the trade union position on the bills and get responses from the legislators on the issue.
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Trade unions and associations of household workers unite for domestic workers’ protection in law and practice
“Domestic workers are an important component of the workforce and of the economy. They have legitimate issues, needs and rights under existing laws and regulations,” stressed some 25 trade union leaders and advocates from some 20 unions and associations of household workers in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao who participated in the two-day National Trade Union Leaders Conference on Domestic Work last May 20-21, 2010, in Bacolod City. Read the rest of this entry »
TUCP pushes for green jobs, decent work
By: Fryan E. Abkilan
Surigao del Norte (28 May) - A national workshop for green jobs and decent work was successfully held in Bacolod City recently. Organized by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) with support from Japan International Labour Foundation (JILAF), the activity documented information on workplace and community-based green jobs and greening practices to contribute to national efforts in developing a green sustainable development strategy in the framework of creating green jobs and promoting decent work. Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian Embassy in Manila declines meeting union leaders on asbestos
Manila, Philippines – “The Ambassador has other commitments throughout that day and he will not be able to attend the event or meet with your representatives. He sends his regrets,” was the reply of the Embassy of Canada on the letter of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), Associated Labor Unions (ALU) and Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) inviting or requesting for an appointment with the Ambassador to receive the statement pushing for asbestos ban and urging Canada to stop mining and exporting asbestos during the International Commemoration Day (ICD) on 28 April 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
TUCP to improve health services in barangays
CEBU, Philippines – Trade Union Congress of the Philippines Partylist Rep. Raymond Mendoza yesterday said their concerns are not only the issues related to labor, but also the need to improve the health services to the people in the barangays. Read the rest of this entry »
Young workers have spoken: Make decent work for youth a reality
“Work without respect for trade union rights is never decent,” young workers stressed during the two-day TUCP/ITUC-AP-supported National Youth Conference/Workshop for Decent Work under Global Crisis in March 12-13, 2010 at Kimberly Hotel, Tagaytay City. Read the rest of this entry »
TUCP, JILAF Complete National Productivity, LMC Workshop
DAVAO CITY (22 February) -Thirty trade union leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao completed recently the National Workshop on Productivity and Labor Management Cooperation (LMC), focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Collective Bargaining. Read the rest of this entry »
Draft domestic workers’ document developed
December 14, 2009, Quezon City — Some 25 youth, women and informal workers, union organizers and activists from three (3) trade union organizations (TUCP, FFW and APL), Informal Sector Coalition of the Philippines (ISP) and Youth for Empowerment and Solidarity (YES) and local unions with domestic workers segments in Luzon and selected regions in Visayas (Cebu) and Mindanao (Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga City) participated in the two-day National Consultation and Workshop on Decent Work for Domestic Workers on December 12-13, 2009 in Manila. Read the rest of this entry »
ILO/TUCP Capacity-Building on LSEF and CLS Held
December 23, 2009, Quezon City –Two Capacity-Building programs on Labor Standards Enforcement Framework (LSEF) and Core Labor Standards were held on 10-12 December and 21-22 December 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
TUCP leading SALT plus actions against the global financial and economic crisis
Some 25 trade union leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao participated in a two-day JILAF-sponsored National Workshop on Global Financial Crisis: It’s Impact on Employment and Productivity on October 16-17, 2009, in Cebu City. Read the rest of this entry »
