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Democrito "Kito" T. Mendoza (July 31, 1923 – January 12, 2016) was a Filipino Visayan lawyer and trade union leader from Cebu, Philippines.He was considered one of the founders of the country's labor movement and champion of Filipino workers' rights in the country being the founder of Associated Labor Union.
Raymond Democrito Cañete Mendoza (born July 7, 1962) is a Filipino lawyer, politician and labor leader, serving as the representative of the Trade Union Congress Party since 2009 and is currently one of the Deputy Speakers in the House of Representatives.
Mendoza is TUCP's Representative to the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Congresses of the Republic of the Philippines. Mendoza was one of the principal authors of landmark legislation: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act which institutionalizes 4Ps as a national poverty reduction strategy; [3] the Magna Carta of the Poor that guarantees the rights of the poor and establishes ...
Dark green: national right to sit laws. Light green: right to sit laws at the state, provincial, or local levels. Light blue: ratification of the Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964. Right to sit laws have been enacted in some form in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania.
Kilusang Mayo Uno (English: May First Movement), also known by its initials KMU is an independent labor center in the Philippines. It promotes "genuine, militant and patriotic trade unionism". The KMU was established on May 1, 1980 to fill a clear need for a workers' organization that would stand for workers' rights and against foreign ...
There are three types of parties in the Philippines. These are: (a) major parties, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which typically correspond to traditional political parties; (b) minor parties or party-list organizations, which rely on the party-list system to win Congressional seats; and (c) regional or provincial parties, which correspond to region-wide or ...
He founded his own labor organization called the Davao Port, General & Transport Worker’s Union (DPGTWU) with the mission of stamping out all forms of oppression against local workers and educate them of their basic legal rights and on organized labor. DPGTWU was then organized and Fernandez was elected as its first president in 1965.
The Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina (UOD or UODF, English: Philippine Democratic Labor Union) was a national trade union center in the Philippines.The organization was considered as the first-ever modern trade union federation in the history of the country, composed of unions from various labor industries; earlier and prior labor groups had been more of mutual aid societies and guilds. [2]