This is, lopsided, it’s not like, we are not, PAYING these migrant workers, they’re making a higher pay compared to if they were to stay back home and worked, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
As I’d encountered multiple times where the protests of migrant workers on the streets, I can always see something odd: the household workers, protesting and hollering out, demanding their employers giving them days off, and pushing along the elderly who couldn’t take care of themselves. “Taking along their employer, to protest over the unfair treatments”, it’s, considered, a phenomenon of human labor history.
And, behind this actions, was how hardworking these migrant workers are, how kind, and how much responsibilities they have. A lot of the children of the elderly who are working away, would pay very little, to hire the migrant workers to look after their ailing parents, 24/7 looking after them, year round. And, even on the Sundays and weekends, the children still stayed away and not accompanied their parents. And the migrant workers couldn’t feel right, leaving the elderly on their own, so they could only, take those they looked after out, and passed their days of “Still looking after the elderly they were hired to look after”.
Actually, the immobilized elderly, aren’t the real employers, their children are! And, unless these employers worked year-round, 24/7, for their bosses; otherwise, as the offspring, on the weekdays, you’d paid to have someone to look after your elderly parents, on the weekends, you should, spend time with them! And all of these Indonesian, Filipino, or Vietnamese household migrant workers were working to better their own economics, to make money for their children’s education that was why they’d, drifted over to work. They are also, someone’s parents! And, so how can the employers, for one’s own conveniences, to NOT look after one’s own parents, and continually, draining out other people’s parents’ energies?
On June 10th, there’s a march by the support organizations of migrant household workers, to FIGHT for their one day off a week, their basic human rights. Hoping, that those who’d not done their filial duties ordinarily, to go home to spend time with their own elderly parents, so the migrant workers who are also, mothers get to have the time to take a breath for themselves, and allowing the world to hear their measly demands of having a break, and reduce the trends of “leaving the elderly parents, to middle aged mothers”.
Uh, these migrant workers has a day off for every two months of work they pulled in, and that was mandated by the law here, and, everybody worked too hard during the workweek, and so, on the weekends, we are, allowed to have time off, and, these migrant workers ARE here, because they needed to make the money, and we needed the manpower, to help look after our own elderly, demented, immobilized, elderly parents, and so, these two “parties” need each other, so, why can’t we just reach a common ground? Oh yeah, because if we give them too much, they’re not, thankful, instead, they’d, taken our kindness for GRANTED, that, is W-H-Y!!!