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In the Philippines, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines is the largest union and confederation of 30 labor federations in the country which come from a wide range of sectors. [36] As of 2009, there are a total of 34,320 unions with consist of members summing up to 2.6 million. [37]
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) is the largest national trade union center in the Philippines. Founded in 1975 by labor leader Democrito Mendoza , TUCP is affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions [ 1 ] and the International Trade Union Confederation .
The Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO) was a trade union federation in the Philippines. It was formed in 1945 by Hukbalahap guerillas who had been members of the Collective Labor Movement. Its first president was Cipriano Cid of the Philippine Trade Union Council. [ 1 ]
During the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino workers in the labor industry experienced the effects of government corruption, crony capitalism, [1] and cheap labor for foreign transnational industries, [2] One of the objectives of Martial Law was to cheapen labor costs, in order to attract transnational corporations to export labor to the ...
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]
The Congreso Obrero de Filipinas (Labor Congress of the Philippines, acronym COF) was a trade union federation in the Philippines, established in 1913 and dissolving into a paper organization which vanished towards the end of the 1930s. The COF was considered the second labor federation in the history of Manila's labor movement.
The Labor Party Philippines, [1] [2] [3] also known as the Workers' and Peasants' Party (WPP; this is their preferred acronym) and formerly known as the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka (lit. Workers' and Farmers' Party; PMM) and the Lapiang Manggagawa (lit. ' Workers' Party '; LM), is a political party in the Philippines.
It represented a regroupment of the leftist sectors of the Filipino trade union movement. [2] CLM was the largest labour organization in the country in the years in the run-up to the Second World War. [3] Shortly after the May Day celebrations of 1938, 25 trade union leaders met in Manila and agreed to form the CLM as a united organization. The ...