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

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.