Unocumented Women In The Garment Industry

We live in a society where we don’t really question where do things come from, for example the clothes we wear. Slowly by slowly women have gain the right to vote and, even the right to form a union to protect their rights but that’s not enough. We need to understand that not all women have the same rights, for example undocumented woman have it harder than any other women in the work force. Garment works is a very common job among undocumented women as Soldatenko mention on her article “These occupations, such as jobs in the service industry, electronics, and garment manufacturing are, accompanied by terrible working conditions and extremely low wages. In the case of Latinas in the garment industry, their undocumented status further restricts their jobs options” (Soldatenko p.240).

This highlights how undocumented Latinas are limited on the jobs they can work on, therefore the most available for their capacities is garment work because it doesn’t require education, English language, or social security. Latina women keep up with these horrible working conditions because they really need the job, and the employer knows it too that’s why they take advantage of these garment workers.
Soldatenkno makes a great point about why these garment workers don’t speak up “Many Latinas remain silent about abuses. They are afraid to lose their meager salaries” (Soldatenko p.143). These garment workers stay quiet about all these horrible working conditions, low wages, harassments because they don’t want to lose their job and, sometimes because they even get threated of deportation. Latinos will still be in high demand of the cheap labor as Trumpbour and Bernard state on their article Union and Latinos Mutual Transformation “Corporations that have bought into the idea that Latino labor is “cheap” will fight unions with extra ferocity in order to preserve this huge discount. From the beginning, corporate opinion makers have been unabashed about their desire to squeeze the most out of Latino labor” (Trumpbour and Bernard p.128). This demonstrates that the target for corporations are Latinos, especially those who are illegal in the U.S because they will do the most hard jobs that no American citizen will do.