Send your support to workers in the Philippines this May Day!
The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU – May First Movement Labor Center) is geared up for May 1 to assert its genuine militant and patriotic unionism in a world that is heaving with exploitation of workers and the planet, and shaken by wars and huge dislocations of working people.
Now more than ever, as US war wreaks havoc across the world, we must link with workers in the Philippines and support their contribution to the worldwide clamor for peace based on justice. Donate to support KMU today!
The Philippines is one of the 10 worst places in the world for workers’ rights, according to the International Trade Union Confederation’s Global Rights Index 2025.
The Jeepney Drivers Association, PISTON, a federation of KMU is leading the national protest strikes of transport workers at sky-high fuel prices due to the current illegal Gulf War. This April, a longstanding KMU Union of Kowloon restaurant workers sustained a strike for six days winning a wage increase. And last year the KMU union at Nexperia Philippines won a long struggle over wages and reinstatement of dismissed union officers in a strike on International Working Women’s Day.
KMU is a key component of national coalition to oppose imperialist wars, to oppose the US military in the Philippines, and to expose and hold accountable the national political leaders who are plundering the national budget.
The Marcos Jr administration has 18 KMU trade union leaders in prison, and is pursuing charges against 22 others who are out on bail. The charges they face are fabricated to repress the exercise of the basic rights of Filipino workers to freedom of association and to collective bargaining. The total number of political prisoners held in Marcos Jr’s jails is 678.
