The International Trade Union Confederation points to the persisting threat of violence against Filipino workers and unions
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On the scale, 1 indicates collective labor rights are generally guaranteed, and 5+ countries similarly have no guarantee of rights as 5-rated countries, but are further aggregated by dysfunctional institutions as a result of internal conflict or military occupation.
With the Philippines in the list of top 10 worst countries are Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, Guatemala, Myanmar, Tunisia, and Turkiye.Joanna Bernice Coronacion, Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa deputy secretary general and head of the Philippine workers’ delegation to the International Labor Organization’s ongoing 112th session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva, called the ITUC’s rating a “national disgrace.
She said the ongoing danger for trade unionists was made possible by Marcos’ unwillingness to dismantle the Duterte-era National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict , which is the agency leading the campaign on red-tagging, or linking activists, workers, peasant groups, and journalists, among others, to the communist insurgency.
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