ONE BAUTISTA MESS KID FEEL TIME BEGIN CREATE DEMAND 2.4 ABUSE ENSURE HOUR MOVEMENT
Marcelina Bautista wept the ___ time she watched ‘Roma’, ___ Oscar-winning drama about ___ domestic worker’s complicated relationship ___ the family that employs her. ___ Cleo, the film’s protagonist, ___ had spent years living ___ other people’s homes, cooking ___ meals, cleaning up their ___ and caring for their ___. Like Cleo, she often ___ isolated and had at ___ suffered discrimination and abuse.
___ unlike Cleo, Bautista fought ___. Three decades ago, she ___ quietly organizing workers and ___ Mexico’s first-ever trade union ___ domestic workers. The union’s ___ were simple, that the ___ million Mexicans who work ___ private homes be treated ___ formal employees, protected from ___ and given contracts that ___ fair wages, limited working ___ and paid vacations.
The ___ has won major gains ___ last December Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that domestic workers have a right to receive social security benefits. Then, the film’s writer and director, Alfonso Cuaron, asked Bautista to introduce the movie at its premiere and this month both explained another Supreme Court decision, which eventually will require people who employ domestic workers to pay into the country’s social security system. They said conditions for domestic workers today are similar to those portrayed in the film, which is set in the 1970s, and that the jobs are typically so low-paid that even middle-class families can afford hired help.
Cuaron, whose film is based loosely on his own childhood, has given the union the rights to use the movie to help its cause.
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