Worker Profiles
Enilda
They don’t make accommodations for pregnant women; they say if women can’t do the work that they should just go home. Even though it is dangerous, women keep doing the work because they are afraid of losing their jobs. There are women that have miscarried because of the workload. This is something that needs to get better. There are people who have fallen at work and broken their legs. There was one person who fell because of the grease that the machine was expelling; can you imagine if this happened to a pregnant worker?
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Marielena Marte
There was one case with a woman at work who said she was sick, and the nurse didn’t pay any attention to her and sent her back to work. When they had to take her out she was purple in the face and could barely breathe from the fabric and lint in her lungs had given her bronchopneumonia. It had to get to that point for them to give permission for her to leave.
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Elvys Manuel Abreu
I am an operator in the knitting department. I work on 6 or 7 machines at a time, and when a coworker doesn’t come we sometimes work 8. The machines are huge, they are about the size of a normal room. The pressure is intense. They need to recognize that we are not animals. We are not machines like the ones we are working with.
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Marleny Franco
I got up at 5:30 am to get on the bus to work and I’d get home at 8:00 pm. When I got home I would feel exhausted and dead, I had just enough energy to shower before I fell asleep to wake up to do it again the next day. I worked all 12 hours on my feet. I had constant back pain from being on my feet for 12 hours.
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Anonymous
There are no windows there and there are only emergency exit doors which they keep closed. There are no fans, and while they say there is air conditioning but the heat is so strong… And grease falls from the machines and it sweats off the floor. They say at work that the dust from the fabric won’t harm us. What I do know is that I get colds and flu very often now.
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