DMW Secretary Susan ‘Toots’ Ople: You will be gone, but not forgotten

BusinessMirror lost a crusading columnist, and millions of our overseas workers lost their tireless champion. The death on Tuesday of Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople of the Department of Migrant Workers is a “great loss to the Philippines,” President Marcos said. “It’s a very, very sad news. I have lost a friend. The Philippines has lost a friend. It’s a big loss. Ang galing-galing ni Secretary Toots. She very much followed in the footsteps of Blas Ople’s tradition of excellence, of compassion.

Ople served as undersecretary of the Department of Labor and Employment in 2004-2009, and founded the Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training Institute—a nonprofit named after her father. The institute assists OFWs in distress, handles labor and migration concerns, and develops programs to empower our migrant workers and their family members.

Ople was a staunch supporter of labor rights and was the “best thing” that happened to migrant workers, according to Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Teodoro Locsin Jr. He recalled how Ople tirelessly worked on behalf of overseas Filipino workers with or without office or means in the past.

For the newly elected head of the International Organization for Migration , the UN agency in charge of migrant workers, Ople’s demise was not only a loss to the Philippines, but also to the entire world. “I am absolutely devastated by the passing of Secretary Ople. She was kind, fierce, funny and passionate. A true advocate for migrants and for the vulnerable. The world is poorer today because of this loss,” Amy Pope, IOM’s Director General-elect, wrote on X.

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