Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

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The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), formed in 1975 with official backing from the Marcos government, is the largest democratic trade organization in the Philippines consisting of several workers' organizations and trade unions in the country, with its members encompassing all sectors and industries (from agriculture to manufacturing to service) including government employees, associations/ organizations of groups, from the OFWs, informal sector, drivers, urban poor, youth groups, cooperatives, alliances, coalitions and other civil society groups.

Membership in TUCP declined in the 1990s, and the union is involved in the more turbulent labour sectors such as the export processing zones, where unions face considerable employer and official hostility.

TUCP is currently affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

[edit] Projects and programs

• Labor Law Revision/Amendments
• Better Implementation of Laws
• Human an Trade Union Rights
• Monitoring Core Standards, Corporate Codes of Conduct
  • Global Compact and OECD Guidelines
  • Appreciation of Standards and Codes
  • Verifying Compliance
  • Filing cases
• Organizing
  • Organizers’ Conference
  • Industry Planning/Organizing Techniques
  • Industry Situationer/Analysis
  • Merger Forum
  • Alliance Building/Work
• Workers Education
  • Education Curriculum, Modules
  • "Back to Basics"
  • Political / Ideological Education
• Collective Bargaining/Negotiations
  • Project Design/Planning
  • Project Administration
  • Management
• Cooperatives
  • Coop Education Curriculum
  • Managing/Administering Cooperatives
  • Coop Finance/Bookkeeping
• Gender Responsiveness and Mainstreaming of Unions, including:
  • Maternity Protection
  • Sexual Harassment at Work
• Youth Organizing and Leadership Development
• TUCP Organizational Effectiveness and Development
  • Middle Level Officers' OED
  • Federation OED
• Globalization and Unions
  • Productivity and Competitiveness of Workers
  • Decent Work
  • Workers' Solidarity
  • Workers and Information Technology
• Civic Advocacy
  • Barangay/LGU Representatives Education
  • RTWPB Representatives Education
  • Prospective Sectoral Representatives Training
• Health Concerns
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Workplace Reproductive Health
  • HIV / AIDS and the World of Work
  • Drugs and Substance Abuse
• Special Concerns:
  • Migrant Worker's Concerns
  • Environmentally Sustainable Development
  • Informal Sector
  • Child Labor
  • Family Welfare / Family Budget
• Special Programs
  • DDP (Democracy Development Project; 1994-1999)
  • Research/responsiveness of structures (Studying law and practice in social security, women, child labor)
  • Advocacy (Pushing reforms in local governance, election law, taxation, labor law and practice)
  • Labor watch (Fielding workers complaints, filing cases)
• ISP (Informal Sector Project; 1996-2000)
  • Concentrates on advocacy and practical measures for the protection of women homeworkers and children against exploitation, discrimination and abuse, and promotion of economic opportunities
  • Access to resources, credits, technology, training
  • Access to social security, medicare, insurance
  • Progressive elimination of child labor including monitoring compliance with ILO core standards
• DAW (Delivery of Justice to Disadvantaged Women Project; 1997)
  • Addresses violence against women, discrimination and sexual harassment, and abuse of migrant women through research, information, building skills, advocacy, alternative structures, monitoring cases
• SJP (Solidarity for Justice Project; 1998 - )
  • Amendments to labor law and practice
  • Improving government service policies and programs
  • Specialized agencies for homeworkers, sexual harassment/discrimination, and child labor
  • Improving law and practice on overseas workers
  • Improving the general justice system (Monitoring performance of courts and justice officials)
  • Community participation in corruption prevention and monitoring
  • Making the organization's concerns as election issues
• Intensifying Advocacy for Family Planning & Reproductive Health at the Work Place (2003 – present)
• Asserting Workers Right in Philippine Sweatshops
• Anti-Sweatshops Campaign Project (2000 – 2004)
• Coalition for the Improvement of the Justice System
• Solidarity for Justice Project (1998 – 2001)
• A Demonstration Project to Promote Reproductive Health/Family Planning Program in the Work Place (FP/RH in the Work Place) (1996 – 1999)
• Empowering Women & Children in the Informal Sector Project (ISP) (1996 – 1999)
• Enhancing Male Involvement in Reproductive Health Among Trade Union Members (1998 – 2000)
• Enhancing the Union-Based HIV/AIDS Peer Education Program in the Selected Sites (2000 – 2001)
• Reproductive Health Project for the Working Youth (2001 - present)

[edit] Party-list

TUCP has set up a party-list, Trade Union Congress Party, to contest parliamentary elections.

[edit] References

• (2005) in ICTUR et al,: Trade Unions of the World, 6th, London, UK: John Harper Publishing.

[edit] External links

• TUCP official site.

[edit] Citation

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