Migrant and labor groups denounce proposed budget cuts for OFW services
Protesters from Migrante International, together with other migrant and labor groups, marched on Congress to denounce the proposed budget decreases for OFW services for 2025 at Quezon City on Tuesday, August 20.
The protest took place during the House Committee on Appropriations hearing on the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Tuesday.
According to the group, the Marcos Jr. administration proposed a 28.7% budget cut for the DMW in 2025.
The government will also bring down funding for the DMW's Overseas Employment and Welfare Program, its oversight programs for OFW recruitment agencies, and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). (MB Video by Mark Balmores)
The protest took place during the House Committee on Appropriations hearing on the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Tuesday.
According to the group, the Marcos Jr. administration proposed a 28.7% budget cut for the DMW in 2025.
The government will also bring down funding for the DMW's Overseas Employment and Welfare Program, its oversight programs for OFW recruitment agencies, and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). (MB Video by Mark Balmores)
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00:00I represent the domestic workers, return domestic workers.
00:05One of the questions that we are organizing in the discussion of the action plan is...
00:11At the moment, the law is within the hands of the officials of the Department of Migrant Workers
00:23to discuss the new budget that will be passed by the DMW.
00:29A warm welcome to all of you.
00:32The citizens are united in the organizations that are here today,
00:38the organizations of OFW,
00:41that are learning to be strong, to be determined in passing the budget to the Department of Migrant Workers.
00:51Lebanon and Sierra Leone.
00:54Our brothers and sisters in North America and in Europe.
01:01The LIBIL program here in NRCO.
01:05This is the action plan.
01:07We told them, what will happen to your policies?
01:13Will it continue if there is a budget cut?
01:18After the pandemic and up to now,
01:22there are still many who do not know that they will get something from the action plan.