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Domestic workers raise Labor Day woes

WAGE increase, standard eight-hour work day, ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention on domestic work, and an end to social exclusion. These were the demands of migrant domestic workers as they marched with local workers on May 1. Thousands of workers brought their concerns to the streets of Causeway Bay to Central in this year’s Labor Day protest action. Eman Villanueva of the Asian Migrants Coordinating Body and