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Canadian and Filipino workers are connected by their increasing precarity
30 minutes Posted May 1, 2026 at 4:48 pm.
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This May Day (International Workers Day), labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga sits down with Aaron Westaway from the Ottawa Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (OCHRP). The two go over the plans OCHRP has in store for this year's May Day celebrations and discuss how the rights of workers globally are something Canada should care about. 

About our guest 

Aaron Westaway is an organizer with the Ottawa Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (OCHRP). Originally from North Bay, Ontario Aaron works to organize Canadians in Ottawa to inform and mobilize people in solidarity with the struggles of workers, farmers and indigenous peoples in the Philippines against abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.

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