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Elvira, Filipino Mother: Unfair workloads and resistance to union organizing

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Elviras_Story_GarmentFactory_Philippines.pdf (127.57 KB)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/100876
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Globalization and the Workplace
Author
International Labor Rights Forum
Abstract

This story is part of ILRF's Mothers' Stories series, which highlights a working mother around the world every day before Mother’s Day. Elvira works in a garment factory in the Philippines. In her testimony she describes her daily routine at home and at work. Elvira is helping to organize a union at her workplace and recounts the resistance she is experiencing from management.

Date Issued
2009-01-01
Keywords
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Type
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