Led by Migrante - United Kingdom and International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines-Britain, Anakbayan United Kingdom, London-Philippine Solidarity, and the International League of Peoples Struggle United Kingdom held a protest action in front of the Philippine Embassy in London.
While the employer’s reversal is a gain of the workers, it does not undo the abuse and exploitation they endured.
Migrante Canada joined Migrante International in declaring December 18 as Zero Remittance Day, expressing outrage against systemic government corruption in the Philippines, where hard-earned remittances sent daily by Overseas Filipino Workers are pocketed by the state.
While wage theft, precarious working conditions, job insecurity, workplace harassment, loss of legal status persist, so does the strength, courage, and perseverance of migrant workers and the migrant rights movement in Canada and across the world.
Amid the ongoing trillion-peso ghost flood control project scandal, which has raised public outrage over alleged misuse of funds meant for disaster mitigation, Filipinos in the diaspora stressed the need for accountability.
The coalition, represented by migrants, youths, church sectors, artists, and the broader Filipino community engaged in a dialogue with the Philippine consulate officials to outline key demands.
“The forced migration of our kababayans due to lack of jobs, livelihood, and social services is a clear manifestation of systemic corruption in the Philippines.”
Filipino families who have been affected by immigration policies have relentlessly contacted the Philippine Consulate and Embassy only to be met with red tape and slow bureaucracy.
Each year brings record breaking typhoons, while the government is steeped in the corruption of public funds, meant for services and the livelihood of our kababayan.
They emphasized that all migrant workers deserve dignity, fair compensation, and proper classification in their workplaces.
“As we work hard abroad with most of us struggling for survival, the corrupt public officials and their co-conspirator private contractors freely squander the people's money. Our taxes, our remittances, and our hard work should serve the Filipino people, not line the pockets of the powerful.”
Filipino progressives described the situation in the U.S. as “unprecedented and intense fascist attacks” on Filipino migrants, highlighting how recent events expose the Philippine government’s failure to protect its nationals abroad.
The exhibit sheds light on pressing questions and the realities behind them–how the hard work of peasants is exploited by landlords and corporations, and how the worsening effects of typhoons and floods continue to devastate rural communities while funds meant for relief and disaster prevention are pocketed by corrupt officials.
“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not enough to just be part of a union. We must be part of a community. We only win the fight if we are part of a community,”
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