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

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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.

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2009-01-01

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global; globalisation; globalization; human; international; labor; labour; organisation; organization; rights; standards; trade; union; work; worker; workplace

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