Philippine trade unions’ activities for the 2010 World Day for Decent Work
September 29, 2010
Implement Decent Work, Support Decent Life, TUCP Tells DOLES
January 13, 2010
07 October 2009 –In two-separate meetings, TUCP Vice President Alejandro C. Villaviza, TUCP Party-List Representative Raymond Mendoza, and TUCP Officers handed over the World Day for Decent Work Call to Action for Decent Work, Decent Life! to DOLE Secretary Marianito Roque and PEZA Director General Lilia de Lima.
The WDDW Call to Action highlights eight key demands –protection of fundamental labor rights; changing unfair trade rules and reforming the World Bank and the IMF; improving the situation of women and men working in the informal economy; providing social protection to the majority of the world’s population who live without it; increasing development assistance; and ratifying and implementing the UN and ILO conventions around the protection of migrant workers and their families.
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Trade Union Priorities for the Negotiating Text of the UNFCCC
October 23, 2009
Re-balance Growth through Decent Work, ITUC-AP urges the ADB
October 23, 2009
08 October 2009, ADB –Philippine ITUC-AP affiliates, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and Federation of Free Workers (FFW) handed over the WDDW Call to Action for Decent Work, Decent Life and the ITUC- Statement “Re-balancing Growth through Decent Work” to the Asian Development Bank represented by Mr. Bart Édes, Director on Poverty Reduction, Gender, and Social Development Division, Regional and Sustainable Development Department.
The ITUC and ITUC-AP delegates were TUCP Vice President Alejandro C. Villaviza, and FFW President Allan Montaño, TUCP Women Director Florencia Cabatingan and Education and Youth Director Rafael Mapalo.
World Day for Decent Work 2009, a Day Ahead in CALABARZON
October 14, 2009
06 October 2009, Alabang –Representatives of tripartite regional institutions of Region IV-A received the World Day for Decent Work Call to Action for “Decent Work, Decent Life!” in a joint TUCP-RTWPB-RTIPC hand-over ceremony at The Palms, Alabang.
The Call to Action is an international petition of seven key demands. It calls on government and decision-makers, including international financial institutions for: inclusive strategies for full and productive employment, promotion and protection of workers’ rights, social protection, changes in unfair trade rules, rationalization of debt servicing, increase in the level of overseas development assistance (ODA) from rich countries which imperative to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals, and protection of migrant workers.
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