Maritza Vazquez, Puerto Rica Mother:  Unsafe workplace, unfair workloads, and resistance to unionizing

dc.contributor.author	International Labor Rights Forum
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-08T21:35:04Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-08T21:35:04Z
dc.date.issued	2009-01-01
dc.description.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. Maritza is a sewing machine operator at a Puerto Rican garment factory which produces uniforms under a U.S. Government contract. In her testimony she describes her daily routine and the conditions at work. Her coworkers are trying to form a union and Maritza explains the resistance they are facing from the company.
dc.description.legacydownloads	Maritzas_Story_GarmentWorker_PuertoRico.pdf: 155 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other	1055283
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/100844
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	global
dc.subject	globalisation
dc.subject	globalization
dc.subject	human
dc.subject	international
dc.subject	labor
dc.subject	labour
dc.subject	organisation
dc.subject	organization
dc.subject	rights
dc.subject	standards
dc.subject	trade
dc.subject	union
dc.subject	work
dc.subject	worker
dc.subject	workplace
dc.title	Maritza Vazquez, Puerto Rica Mother: Unsafe workplace, unfair workloads, and resistance to unionizing
dc.type	article
local.authorAffiliation	International Labor Rights Forum: True

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