Thursday, September 6, 2018

LEP remains as a policy, OFWs remains exploited

Posted by
Belarmino Dabalos Saguing
Rome, Italy, September 6 2018








Philippine migrant workers overseas is a sizable exploited sector of our Society popularly known as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). Despite of the differences on their personal opinions on what drove them to go abroad, they are joined by one reason: poverty and the lack of jobs with enough salary to support decent life for their family.



Two years ago, Pres. Duterte made a promise that under his presidency, there will no mre need for workers to leave the country and will return OFWs back home to work in their native land.



But that promise remained nothing but just another one of his forgotten promises. No jobs were created for them to return to, no improvement on the livng conditions in the country. On the contrary, jobs became precarious due to contractualizations, prices has risen uncontrollably to impossible levels creating more poor families, food has to be imported, human rights violation became commonplace, even OFWs and/or their families falling victims to extra-judicial killings and other heartaches befalling to all except to those close to the ruling party.


OFWs are still in foreign lands facing unmentionable hardships, more exploitation, dangers in war-torn countries in Middle East, unexplained deaths and cruelties and even death in the hands of the foreign employers, imprisonment for various reason and death sentences, government neglect in foreign lands.
And the end to this situation is nowhere in sight. The situation remains unabated and even worsening with the deteriorating political situation in the country.


The migrant workers’ dream of a society where families are not separated by the urgent need to live is still a dream for the millions of OFWs.

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