Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Hong Kong held a picket protest in front of the Philippine Consulate General office to denounce renewed moves to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Hong Kong held a picket protest in front of the Philippine Consulate General office to denounce renewed…
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Observance of Migrants Day Focuses on Distressful OFW Conditions
The distressful plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) became the highlight of a gathering of families at the Itogon Training Center at Bua, in Barangay (village) Tuding here, as the event focused on five Benguet OFW families. BY LYN V. RAMO MIGRANT WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat ITOGON, Benguet (200 kms north of Manila)…
Migrant Workers Shall Suffer the Brunt of the Globalization-induced Crisis
BY THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS ALLIANCE Posted by Bulatlat Neo-liberal globalization has forced us to migrate and become commodities for sale by sending countries and cheap laborers for the receiving ones. Now, as neoliberal policies induced another global recession, we are again made to carry the brunt of the crisis. Slowly but surely, the crisis that…