Trade Union Congress Party
Trade Union Congress Party | |
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| Ideology | Trade unionism Laborism |
| National affiliation | TUCP |
| Colors | Blue |
| Seats in the House of Representatives | 1 / 63 (Party-list seats only)
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| Website | |
| tucp.org.ph | |
Trade Union Congress Party is a party-list in the Philippines, set up by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines as its electoral wing.[1] The party contested the 2004 legislative elections, mustering 201,396 votes nationwide (1.58%). The list failed to win any seat.[2] The Supreme Court declared TUCP, as well as a few other party-list organizations, as winners in the 2007 legislative elections by virtue of the Philippine Constitution.
Raymond Democrito Cañete Mendoza is currently serving as the representative of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Party-list and is currently one of the Deputy Speakers in the House of Representatives. He is TUCP's representative to the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Congresses of the Republic of the Philippines.
Electoral performance
[edit]| Electoral History | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | Congress | Votes | % | Seats Won | Representatives |
| 2001 | 12th | 103,273 | 0.68 | 0 | Democrito Mendoza |
| 2004 | 13th | 201,396 | 1.58 | 0 | Democrito Mendoza |
| 2007 | 14th | 162,647 | 1.02 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2010 | 15th | 245,031 | 0.82 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2013 | 16th | 368,883 | 1.35 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2016 | 17th | 467,275 | 1.44 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2019 | 18th | 256,059[3] | 0.92 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
| 2022 | 19th | 260,779 | 0.71 | 1 | Raymond Mendoza |
Note: Competed in 2001 as Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.
Party-list nominee
[edit]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;[4] the Magna Carta of the Poor that guarantees the rights of the poor and establishes the necessary government interventions for poverty alleviation,[5] and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Act which establishes the DMW as the single home for all the needs and concerns of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).[6] He is also pushing for the passage of the Security of Tenure Bill which seeks to end the prevalent and abusive practice of labor-only contracting.[7]
In the 15th Congress, he served as Chairperson of the Committee on Poverty Alleviation [8] and as vice chairperson of the Committee on Labor and Employment and the Committee on People's Participation.
In the 16th Congress, he served as chairperson in the following committees: Committee on East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA) from August 2013 to June 2014,[9] Special Committee on Food Security from July to October 2015, and the Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs from October 2015 to June 2016.[10] He also served as the Senior Vice Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law[11] and the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Labor and Employment. He was also a member of the Commission on Appointments from July 2014 to June 2015.
In the 17th Congress, he served as the Chairperson of the Committee on Poverty Alleviation.
In the 18th Congress, he served as the Chairperson of the Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs[12] and as Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Labor and Employment and the Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation.
He was also a member of the Philippine delegation to the 36th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) General Assembly held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2015 and to the 24th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and the 10th Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Summit in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar in May 2014.
Currently, in the 19th Congress, he serves as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Trade Union Congress of the Philippines". Archived from the original on October 8, 2006.
- ^ "COMELEC Election Results". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
- ^ "2019 National Elections Partylist Canvass Report" (PDF). Commission on Elections. May 13, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "House adopts Senate version of bill creating OFW dept. | Philippine News Agency". Philippine News Agency.
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "No meat allowed for the poor". 7 October 2011.
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ "House of Representatives Press Releases".
- ^ Mendoza, Raymond Democrito. "Know The Party-List Rep". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
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