Learn about efforts to organize unions in US-linked call centers in the Philippines & the importance of ensuring that international trade policies uphold fundamental human rights.
The event, moderated by Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network and Ryan Harvey, National Field Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, is part of organizing efforts for two upcoming rallies in the U.S. during negotiating meetings for the Biden’s administration’s largest trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). Those meetings and rallies will take place in Detroit in May and in Seattle in August.
Wednesday’s event is sponsored by the BPO Industry Employees’ Network (Philippines), International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (US), Communications Workers of America (US), Public Citizen (US), BAYAN USA (US), International League of Peoples’ Struggle – US, and The Real News Network.
Hear from:
*Mylene Cabalona, President, BPO Industry Employees Network (Philippines)
*Elena Lopez, Senior Legislative Specialist, Communications Workers of America (US)
*Adrian Bonifacio, National Chairperson, BAYAN USA (US)
*Melinda St. Louis, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (US)
*Aaeshah Siddiqui, Organizer, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (US)
*Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network (moderator)
*Ryan Harvey, National Field Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (moderator)
For more info about the May 20th Detroit IPEF/APEC rally: https://bit.ly/Detroit-IPEF / asiddiqui@citizen.org
For more info about the August Seattle IPEF/APEC rally: julie@washingtonfairtrade.org
BPO Industry Employees Network: https://bienphilippines.wordpress.com/
Communications Workers of America: https://cwa-union.org/
BAYAN USA: https://www.bayanusa.org/
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch: https://tradewatch.org/
** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
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We call Duterte to stand for the nexr election..
Nobody cares.
Great job, guys! from BAYAN Australia
IF U NOT SATISFIED WITH AMERICA SYSTEM MAYBE U SHOULD TRY cheap china…….🤣🤣🤣
LOL!!! They'll be starving within a month.
The Philippines must stand up for their own independent power.
KEEP FIGHTING….."UAW MEMBER". USA…
Maybe if American corporations benefited its own citizens but they just slyfully take our Time, Money, and Rights plus Corps have more rights than humans
Do I get that right? US as role model for worker's rights and Unions?
I was a union delegate for my staff in a New Zealand transport company, they and the head Union advocates were good, but here every one could negotiate independently. That was the worst thing i've ever seen. United Union should come back, stop the status quo
I wonder as a New Zealander, is our country involved…. as a New Zealander I also know we are part of the G5, or something like that. Mot sure what it means, but as a nuclear free country, the USA stopped showing our country on World Maps even on TV or in your schools, or In any media. God help the Philippines.
Thanks to these young activists. Without them, the the Philippines will degrade even faster.
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If the Labor Movement doesn't stand and fight against fiat currency (inflation) and the CBDC (tyrannical control grid), we have no moral standing. Criminal Central Banks are the chief thieves, enslaving the world by war and indebtedness.
What's going on in the Philippines is amazing, it is a current case study of M-L-M working and striving to end fascism. I personally know a former Navy Seal who was sent to the Philippines to Assassinate a leader. When he took the shot the target turned and an innocent little girl became an unintended victim…smh America needs to stop their secret campaigns in the Philippines.
In other to fully understand Phillioinos you must have been lived in this backward society for some time to form a solid opinion.
I called them a backward society for a reason, these idiots can complain all hey want means absolutely nothing when at the end of the day they give in all polls taken around 90% approval rating for their government, so let them suffer more till the day they wake up, they have themselves to blame for their misery, and unless you have lived here you don't know nothing about this country and it's dumb people.
Looks like the Yanks are helping the Marcos Jr to becomes a Marcos Sr to continue the exploitation of the country where most of the citizens need to "work" overseas as maids, menial workers, etc, to survive……
Very sad.
The Philippines people elected the son of the dictator that killed tens of thousands of Filipinos. I believe Filipinos need better conditions but it's not like the average person is making things better.
The province where my girlfriend lives has a daily minimum wage of 350 pesos ($7 a day), whereas she makes almost that per hour working for the US branch of a Japanese company. My question is what is the answer? Filipinos are treated the worst by Filipinos, and the assassinations of the country were usually political by the Duterte administration before Bongbong was elected. If you fight the people actually giving good pay, what's the outcome?
You can call it exploitation but what will you call it when the companies decide to go to India, Thailand, and other cheaper countries? Again, no one deserves abuse, but the country electing the dictator isn't a good sign for the coming years.
This talk avoided the major elephant behind the curtain. How do we shut down the criminal vermin behind robocall scammers, whether phishing, lead generation, telemarketing, or financial scammers?
The legal market for offshored call centers as reduced cost customer service on in-call systems trains workers in phone skills and tech usage to operate as prolific, predatory, invasive criminals disrupting lives of US-ians. Some of that is operated by people like George Kaltner, a NY finance type with a U of Richmond (VA) education, who operates a Delaware dummy corp called "Compliant Dialer, inc", and Philippines operation "Avatar and Echo Telemarketing". That one has been prosecuted for RICO and extortion crimes, but uses a semi-educated low labor cost pool both for his own fake nonprofit donation scams, and contracts to any other crook wanting a Do Not Call violation scam operation at lower costs than domestic operations, but with a work force that seeks recently college educated females who will believe lies that they were hired for a legal business, not as organized crime operatives.
Public Citizen has been an important voice for many US and world issues for decades, but please, it's not just India where those vermin operate…. and not just the example above; add Homefix Custom Remodelling and various other fake names they use, insurance brokers and agents generating leads, time share sales, etc, which facially may seem like legal businesses except when they operate as predatory fraudulent criminal scammers, using Philippines call centers. I'd exterminate them like rodents or cut off India and Philippines from world banking and telecom, if that could solve the crime infestation…. What other options are there, including possibly worker organizations teaching workers to recognize and refuse to work for crooks?
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