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The Philippines
Overview
Almost 90% of total employment in the Philippines is in the informal sector of the economy - homebased workers and workers in micro-enterprises employing a maximum of 10 workers, usually subcontractors of big multinational firms or in agricultural work. This sector is overwhelmingly dominated by marginalised women and even children who work for irregular and insufficient incomes, face job insecurity and often inhumane working conditions. The Philippines' largest export earner is labour - over 1,000 Filipinos depart Manila for jobs overseas each day as domestic workers and seafarers.
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA assists occupational health and safety training through a Manila-based institute which trains workplace OH&S committees from a wide range of unions across a number of industries. Other projects include supporting HIV/AIDS education and care through the support of the Pasasalamat Fund, and trade union training.
Strategy
Like most countries in Asia who have chosen low wages as their comparative advantage in the global marketplace, Philippine workers are suffering as they are being forced to compete with Chinese wage levels. The Government and companies are making every effort to lower wages, extend working hours and de-unionise workplaces to compete globally. This is having a devastating impact on many Filipino families, and 40% of the population live below the poverty line.
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History
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA in the Philippines
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Projects
HIV/AIDS Education and Support
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has been supporting the Positive Action Foundation Philippines Inc (PAFPI) who provide training on HIV/AIDS prevention for overseas Filipino workers, undertake counselling and training for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families, and run the Abot-Kamay drop-in centre for people living with HIV/AIDS....
Trade Union Organiser Training
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) - through donations from union officials, organisers and staff to Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA - has long supported the Philippines trade union federation, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), by training union organisers and other organisers who work with the urban poor....
Fighting Child Labour in the Philippines
For a child to have to work rather than go to school is a disaster which condemns that child to a lifetime of poverty, job insecurity and low productivity. ...
Latest The Philippines News
A mountain of need - the story of Manila's rubbish dumps - 13 January 2009
For anyone who has visited Manila’s garbage dump, the first things that strike you are the stench and the flies – millions of flies. Then you notice the people, hundreds of them......
Visit from Joshua T. Formentera, Executive of PAFPI - 20 March 2006
In early March Joshua T. Formentera, the Executive Director of Positive Action Foundation Philippines (PAFPI), visited Australia and, while here, held a public talk about the work currently being done by PAFPI to address HIV/AIDS in the Philippines....
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