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Trade union rights are human rights 2021-03-10 Philippines: Union condemns Duterte Government’s denial of youth’s right to education
With schools closed for one year in the Philippines, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has criticised President Duterte for being the biggest obstacle to the realisation of the youth’s right to education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2021-01-05 The Philippines: Trade union calls for greater resources for distance learning
As in many countries during the pandemic, the Philippines shifted to distance learning modalities to enable education continuity. However, the remote learning programme met with problems of inadequate funding and issues of Internet connectivity and access to teaching and learning resources. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), one of Education...
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Union growth 2020-12-01 Philippines: Global Day of Action
November 30 was a Global Day of Action on the Philippines. The global trade union movement showed its solidarity with trade unionists and other activists who struggle for human rights and democracy in a country where both are in danger since the election of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.
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Union growth 2020-11-23 The Philippines: Unionism Is not Terrorism
Trade union and other leaders and activists from the Philippines recounted stories of repression in the Philippines in a Council of Global Unions Webinar on the Quest for Justice held on 23 November 2020. Vivid accounts were given of killings, threats and intimidation, red-tagging, and police abuses across private and...
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Union growth 2020-11-19 The Philippines: Webinar on Workers’ Quest for Justice
Assaults on human and trade union rights are growing in the Philippines. As part of its ongoing solidarity campaign, the Council of Global Unions (CGU), has organised a webinar on Monday, 23 November, where trade union and human rights activists will explain the latest moves of the Duterte government and...
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Union growth 2020-09-18 Philippines: International solidarity with workers and unionists facing tyranny
Education International has joined other Global Unions in a webinar backing Filipino workers and trade unionists who fight to defend from governmental siege rights and democracy. The discussion was organised by the Council of Global Unions (CGU). The CGU groups Global Union Federations like EI with the International Trade Union...
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Union growth 2020-09-01 Philippines: Academics take judicial action to halt threats and harassment
Filipino academics, supported by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and a large education coalition, made a stand against the Duterte regime’s attacks on academic freedom and democracy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2020-08-21 A question in the wilderness, by Joseph Jovellanos.
A story was once told that after WWII, the then Emperor Hirohito of Japan called one of his soldiers and asked the question: “How many teachers survived?” This question is an acknowledgment by the emperor of the crucial role of teachers in building or re-building a nation. Without teachers, a...
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Union growth 2020-08-18 Philippines: Global education union movement calls for justice for murdered colleague
Education International is outraged by the killing of education unionist Zara Alvarez in the Philippines. The global union federation support its national affiliate, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Philippines (ACT), in its demands for justice for the murdered human rights activist.
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Union growth 2020-07-28 Philippines: State’s terror campaign against teachers must stop
Education International strongly supports its Filipino affiliate in its struggle to see educators’ human and trade union rights respected. It condemns the use of harassment methods and anti-terrorism legislation to eliminate critical legal protections.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2020-05-11 UK: Teacher union gives international solidarity award to Filipino trade union leader
UK teacher union NASUWT has presented its International Solidarity Award 2020 to Raymond Basilio, Secretary General of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers in the Philippines, and member of the Education International Executive Board.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2020-05-05 Philippines: Beginning of new school year should be tied to appropriate health measures
Education unionists in the Philippines have reiterated the need to ensure safety from COVID-19 in all classrooms for teachers and students before opening education establishments for a new school year.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2020-03-26 Philippines: Higher education union negotiates financial support for educators during COVID-19 university closures
The National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers is assisting its members in negotiations with employers so that educators receive financial support during school closures in the Philippines. The union is also offering students remedial online sessions.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2020-03-20 Philippines: The Alliance of Concerned Teachers urges government to increase support to the millions affected by the COVID-19 outbreak
The Philippines is currently under a State of National Health Emergency and a State of Calamity. Classes from kindergarten to college are cancelled until 14 April 2020 but the government is not conducting extensive testing nor providing enough support for the population. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers is mobilising to...
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Union growth 2020-02-27 Philippines: Renewed attacks on teachers and their union
Despite international solidarity, human and trade union rights abuses continue in the Philippines. The red-tagging and vilification campaign targeting members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers is escalating.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2020-01-30 Corporatised education in the Philippines: Pearson, Ayala Corporation and the emergence of Affordable Private Education Centers (APEC)
By Curtis B. Riep
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Trade union rights are human rights 2019-12-10 The global trade union movement puts the Philippine government on notice: hands off human and trade union rights defenders!
Today, Human Rights Day, Education International, its affiliates and the global trade union movement stand with trade unionists and all those who defend human rights in the Philippines.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2019-12-09 “Philippines: On Persecuting Teachers and Weaponizing Education”, by Raymond D. Basilio.
Teachers and education in the Philippines are under siege. The Duterte government’s worsening attacks on all forms of dissent, disguised as a ‘whole-of-nation approach’ purportedly to end local communist insurgency, is taking its toll on the sector that is universally mandated to espouse and uphold social justice, human rights and...
“Philippines: On Persecuting Teachers and Weaponizing Education”, by Raymond D. Basilio.