2009 a bleak period for OFWs

LUCENA CITY — As the government seeks to deploy two million laborers abroad next year, Filipino workers should brace themselves for more retrenchments, lower wages, and worse working conditions overseas, a migrant group has warned. At the same time, Migrante International said it would hold the Arroyo administration “fully accountable for being hell-bent in exporting the most number of Filipinos abroad amidst the worsening global crisis.” Martinez recalled that during her 2007 state-of-the-nation-address, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pledged to deploy two million OFWs before her term ends in…

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