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Written by Hector Pascua, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:02 |
Filipino and Austrian members of Philippine Solidarity and Friendship Group (PSFG) held a picket in front of Nestlé company in Austria to express their solidarity to Filipino workers still fighting for their retirement plan benefits in the Nestlé’s branch in the Philippines.
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Written by Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, INQUIRER.net
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 18:32 |
MANILA, Philippines—Members of the House of Representatives who have voted in favor of the resolution on constituent assembly have lost the votes of the overseas Filipino workers and their families here in the country, migrant workers groups said Wednesday.
Members of the Migrante-Middle East said they will ask their relatives here “to mark the names of these pro Con-ass Congressmen whose political interests is much important than the common good of their constituents.” |
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Written by Blanche Rivera, INQUIRER.net
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 11:04 |
HONG KONG—Every night in Yuen Long, a far-off area in the New Territories, she rummages through garbage bins for soda cans, cardboard boxes, and other recyclables that can earn her HK$38 (P228) on a nice day.
Poverty drove Mildred Perez, 38-year-old Filipina, like 126,000 other Filipinos here, to come and work in Hong Kong as a helper, leaving behind her two children in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya.
But her dream to build a decent life for her family was crushed when her employer, a pastor, sexually assaulted her in 2007. She lost her job, and being a complainant in a pending court case, is barred by Hong Kong laws to take up employment.
She has since been unable to support her family, so her children were forced to drop out of school. There are days when her life, it seemed to her, was useless.
But on April 29, Perez found something that could have ended her misfortunes. |
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Written by GMANews.TV
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Friday, 29 May 2009 18:06 |
MANILA, Philippines — The anemic 0.4-percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2009 not only warns of a recession but also shows that remittances from overseas Filipino workers are no longer enough to prop up the economy, a militant think tank said.
IBON Foundation also noted the growth in private consumption at 0.8 percent is the slowest growth in 23 years since 1986, when it grew by only 0.7 percent.
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Written by Janess Ann J. Ellao, Migrant Watch, Bulatlat.com
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:47 |
MANILA — In the 1970s, many engineers and skilled workers left the country to work in the Middle East. The Marcos administration exported the country’s skilled labor as a Band-Aid solution to the growing unemployment in the Philippines. Three decades later, the wound seemed to have never healed; the government continues to export its workers to boost the economy.
Today, more women are now leaving the country to work abroad such as domestic workers and health professionals as the demand for land-based migrant workers has dramatically shifted from men to women.
Maricar Evangelista, 35, a mother of four children, is one of the millions of Filipinos who left the country to find work abroad. Her story, of course, is also similar to the thousands of women migrant workers who have returned home after experiencing various forms of abuses from their employers. |
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Written by Sophie Pons, Agence France-Presse/Inquirer.Net
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Monday, 25 May 2009 15:59 |
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—Spreading an unashamedly anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant, and anti-European message, far-right parties are aiming to take the European Union Parliament by storm in looming elections.
From Bulgaria in the east of the 27-nation club to Britain in the wealthier west, hard-line parties are seizing on the fears of communities who have seen jobs lost and homes seized in the recession.
Governments across the European Union, particularly in the former communist East Bloc, have expressed concern about the rise of the extreme right. |
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