M-ME regional director John Leonard Monterona said the distress OFWs called him Tuesday asking for assistance specifically to inquire and follow the status of their cases with SSWA which shelter is located in Dammam, eastern part of Saudi Arabia.

An alliance of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East called on President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to immediately revoke a memorandum requiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) compulsory membership to PAG-IBIG.

Migrante International Chairperson Garry Martinez today slammed what he called the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) double standards in its handling of Ilocos Sur Rep. Ronaldo Singson’s drug trafficking case in relation to the agency’s lack of assistance to OFWs victimized by drug syndicates abroad.

“It is really a systematic way of the government to wave a cheap and docile labor to cover the real problem on unemployment which is now in a 3.1 million figure high”, said Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez.
According to Martinez, the Department of Labor and Employment, given the primary problem of Filipino workers in genuine jobs, has shown how they …

Migrante Sectoral Party today slammed the Commission on Elections� (COMELEC) dismissal of the party�s verified opposition to the poll body�s decision to disqualify Migrante from participating in the next year�s party-list race.

POLITICS   “We challenge the Comelec to explain to us and to the many OFWs who have been clamoring for MSP to run why, at this time that we are stronger now to run for a seat, COMELEC is denying us this legitimate right!” said Connie Bragas-Regalado, chairperson of Migrante Partylist.

The biggest global alliance of OFWs paid their last respects to former President Corazon Aquino as she was laid to rest at the Manila Memorial Park at Paranaque City by calling her the opposite of President Gloria Arroyo in terms of caring for the welfare of OFWs.
�OFWs in almost 200 countries across the world mourns with the family of Cory …

Migrants ask for genuine immediate relief
While the government is boasting off more job openings for Filipinos abroad, more than 800 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were retrenched in Taiwan this month alone according to a global alliance of migrants groups.
Migrante International Deputy Secretary General Gina Gaborni urged the government to act immediately to protect the labor rights of and give genuine …