Government employees press for wage increaseem> (Photo courtesy of Courage Government Employees Partylist)
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of global alliance of Migrant Filipinos Migrante International marked the 17th year death anniversary of Flor Contemplacion with a protest action held on March 17 at the Chino Roces Bridge (former Mendiola Bridge). This time, they are protesting against the US wars of aggression and deployment [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila — If President Benigno Aquino III has a list proving that he has not been “noynoying” or being idle and lazy in Malacanang as what progressive peoples’ organizations have been asserting, the alliance of migrant organizations and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) also has their own list proving Aquino [...]
Thursday, March 8, 2012
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
In war-torn Syria, the Philippine embassy is sending distressed OFWs to jail when they escaped the maltreatment of employers and danger of war.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We expected the Philippines, as chair of the Committee on Domestic Workers that deliberated on the text of the convention with recommendations, to be the first or one of the first to ratify the convention but so far, it seems that it is not in the list of President Aquino’s priorities.” – Filipino Migrant Workers’ Union
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Migrante International continues to call on the Benigno Aquino III administration to hasten its process of repatriating overseas Filipino workers (OFW) caught in internal conflict-ridden Syria. It called the government’s repatriation efforts “slow, sporadic and passive.” After a dialogue last week with officials of the Department of [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Migrante International has another bone to pick with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). The Commission on Audit (CoA) recently released its report on the POEA’s “Balik Manggagawa Program” and implied that the agency has been overcharging overseas Filipino workers by at least P13 million ($ 302,326 [...]
Friday, January 13, 2012By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Overseas Filipino workers and their families are up against what they say is yet another ploy to milk them for money: a whopping 150 percent increase in health insurance premiums. Migrante International and its chapters in Hong Kong and the Middle East have issued declarations against the [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2011By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Then pastor of the United Methodist Church English Speaking (MCES) in Wanchai, Hong Kong, Bishop Solito Toquero witnessed the many hardships overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) faced in Hong Kong. “There was one domestic helper who suffered a nervous breakdown. We brought her to the psychiatric ward of the [...]
Sunday, December 18, 2011
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Being a social worker, an activist, a mother forced by circumstance to work as a domestic helper overseas, and an organizer shaped Connie Bragas-Regalado into being an effective advocate and leader for migrants’ rights.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“No Filipino goes out of the country with a death wish. Our 12 million overseas Filipino workers were compelled to leave the country to seek so-called greener pastures abroad in the absence of jobs, livelihood and decent living conditions in the Philippines.” – Garry Martinez, Migrante International
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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