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