Sunday, April 26, 2009

Trade union claims workers' remittances from US, key countries down

Remittances from Filipino workers based in the United States and other key countries in Europe and the Middle East have slumped at double-digit rates, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported Sunday.

Based on a closer scrutiny of data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), TUCP secretary-general and former Senator Ernesto Herrera said the January to February 2009 money transfers from Filipino workers in America declined by 12.02 percent to $1.023 billion versus the $1.163 billion they sent home in the same two-month period in 2008.

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