SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
CTUHR’s Kamz Deligente on the World Day for Decent Work
October 7, 2026Kamz Deligente, Executive Director of the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), on the right to organize and the celebration of the World Day for Decent Work. Filipino translation: Walang disenteng trabaho kung walang layang mag-organisa ang mga manggagawa. Ang kalayaan sa pagsapi sa asosasyon—karapatan ng mga manggagawa na mag-unyon—ang nagbibigay sa kanila […]
CPDG Denounces Arrest Warrants vs. Labor Leaders
August 15, 2026The Council for People’s Development and Governance (CPDG) strongly denounces the issuance of warrants of arrest by the Manila Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 28 against labor and grassroots organizers Jerome Adonis, chairperson of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), Jacq Ruiz of Kilusan ng Kababaihan, and James Edward Anajao of Sandigan ng Manggagawa ng QC. Charging these […]
The Ayuda Trap: Why Survival is Not a Solution
Dom Ybera | May 7, 2026People already know how it goes. There’s a list. You line up, sometimes before sunrise. If your name is there, you receive a temporary reprieve. If it isn’t, you go home to navigate the impossible alone. A few days later, the relief is gone. But the problem remains. The cost of living is rising: food, […]
Labor’s Deprivation of Wages
May 6, 2026Every beginning of May, workers and their efforts are glorified but facts reveal that their treatment continues to be far from fair. Workers power the country’s economy but they remain neglected, with some even targeted for demanding more. Their fight for livable wages, humane working conditions, and an end to contractualization consists of legitimate calls […]
From Toil to Turmoil: The Violent Devaluation of the Filipino Worker
May 1, 2026Every May 1st, the state and corporate elite dress up the International Workers’ Day with hollow tributes to the “labor heroism”. But for the millions who operate the gears of the Philippine economy, there is no celebration—only the sharpening contradiction between the wealth they create and the poverty they are forced to inhabit. This economic […]
Fast Facts: On the Situation of Women Workers & Migrant Workers
March 25, 2026The 2026 Ulat Lila data reveals a deepening crisis for Filipina workers. Whether trapped in precarious informal labor or vulnerable to global conflict and exploitation as migrants, women are bearing the brunt of an economy built on cheap, unprotected labor. This brief explores the intersection of gender discrimination and labor exploitation, amplifying the collective movement […]
From Neoliberal Plunder to Starvation Wages: Defend The Right to Livelihood Against Corporate Greed and State Neglect
March 20, 2026The Council for People’s Development and Governance (CPDG) strongly support our jeepney drivers, operators, and transport workers launching a nationwide transport strike this 19-20 March 2026. We recognize this strike as a legitimate assertion of the people’s right to survive against state abandonment of its duty to ensure the people’s welfare amidst crisis situations, leaving […]
CPDG IN ACTION 2023
March 5, 2024In 2023, civil society organizations came together to hold the Philippine Government accountable for its commitments to uphold the Filipino people’s human rights. The struggles for economic, social, and cultural rights despite constant threats to civil and political rights were a constant source of hope.
People’s Review of SDG 8 | Trabaho, Sahod at Ayuda hanggang mapuksa ang pandemya: Karapatan at Kasarinlan tungo sa tunay na Kaunlaran
November 30, 2021Held on July 13, 2021 by the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Federation of Free Workers, Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura, and Defend Jobs Philippines through the Council for People’s Development and Governance’s PH Civil Society SDG Watch, Filipino workers weighed in on the implementation of SDG8 on economic growth and decent […]
