Trade Union Congress Party

Trade Union Congress Party
Trade Union Congress Party
Ideology	Trade unionism; Laborism
National affiliation	TUCP
Colors	Blue
Seats in the House of Representatives	1 / 63 (Party-list seats only)
Website
	tucp.org.ph
	Politics of the Philippines; Political parties; Elections;

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

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

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]