Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History. The twenty first
Speaker 1: of January and on the twenty first of January nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight, workers at the Passig Mattel plant in the
Speaker 1: Philippines blockaded their factory following a vote in favor of
Speaker 1: strike action in protest at the firm closing its Caneter plant.
Speaker 1: The move cost the jobs of one eight hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty workers who made costumes and accessories for Barbie dolls,
Speaker 1: even though the press reported that eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: the passive workers went to work. The blockade shut down
Speaker 1: all production by stopping materials entering or leaving the factory
Speaker 1: rather than negotiate with the workers, though Mattel decided to
Speaker 1: close its operation in the Philippines down completely and lay
Speaker 1: off the remaining two thy two hundred Passig workers in
Speaker 1: violation of their collective agreement with the workers' union should
Speaker 1: have been respected until at least nineteen ninety. The sources
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