January 11, 2022 • 9 mins
In the wake of unionizing and strikes around the world, we focus on activist Marcelina Bautista and her efforts to improve conditions for domestic workers.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff.
I never told you production if I hire radio Annie,
welcome back, yes to you as well. It's good. This
is our second recording but in one day. But I
(00:26):
really felt like I needed to do a welcome back again, yes,
because I felt right. It did feel right. And you know,
we're only seeing each other over these virtual screens, but
it's still good to see you. Yes, our recordings have
gotten longer and longer just because I keep asking you
conversational stuff instead of working, which is probably not helpful.
(00:47):
But hey, yeah, lots of laughs have been had. I
haven't talked to somebody in so long. Like, my throat
is hurting and my face hurts from smiling. But this
is good. Pain, Okay, good, I'm like, go no, I'm
I love it. Anything new you've been doing since the
New Year, because you know that's supposed to be a thing. Well,
(01:08):
I sent you a picture I got a galaxy projector yeah,
to ask you about that. It was pretty fancy. Yeah,
I really like it. And I've been being the biggest
of nerds and I'll like put it on and I'll
listen to like classical music and read fan fiction. It
has been the best and I am trying to stretch
more so I did a whole stretch session last night.
(01:31):
It felt really good, but I can tell my body
was you should have been doing this. You've waited two years.
I googled some health thing that was happening with me
and they're like, you need to stretch, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
So I got this is a present to myself. I
(01:53):
got chocolate hot chocolate bombs. I was so excited and
I made one and it was so and diclomatic. It
just sung to the bottom. A couple of marshmallows popped up.
I was like, oh, marshmallows. And then that was And
then I was like, I don't know if I didn't
have the milk hot enough. I mean, it's pretty hot,
but I also didn't want to burn the milk, you
(02:14):
know that situation. So it was really sad. I need
I want to tell me what I did wrong. Anyway,
That's not what we're talking about today, No, no, no,
but we are back with our segments Women around the World,
and yeah, there's been a lot of news about strikes
and unions being formed all around the country. All around
(02:35):
the world, which has been really inspiring to see, and
it's an exciting time to watch as employees and workers
are coming together to demand better pay, better benefits, and
a call to just overhaul a system that is based
on results in dollars over the people in quality of
work and quality of conditions. So it is really exciting
to see and inspiring to see. So we wanted to
talk about a woman who's been fighting to better work
(02:58):
situations and right for domestic workers. Uh fifty five year
old Marcellina Baptista, who has been a part of this
activism in Mexico since she was seventeen years old, so
she's been working though way before then and continues to
be recognized for her hard work and passion. And just
to go ahead and let y'all know, we're getting most
of this information and quotes from translated sites. Google Translator
(03:20):
has been our friend, so it's obviously a little different
from what she's actually saying or what the sites are
actually saying when it comes to the Spanish translation versus
the English translation, so bear with us, but we had
to celebrate such an amazing woman. Bautista started working as
a domestic worker in Mexico City at the age of fourteen,
leaving behind her family and her education from her home
(03:42):
area of Tierra Colorado Pascal, the na Chislon Wahaka area.
So sorry if I messed that up, y'all. I'm really
trying and I can't roll my rs, So don't hate me.
That's that's skilled for sure. Um. She talked about her
upbringing in the difficulties of just being a girl slash
woman in her town, as well as when she left
to start providing for herself. She was one of twelve
(04:04):
children and helped with the care of her other siblings
until she left. In interview with You and Women, she said,
this violence towards the women I knew are my cousins,
even though they are the customs, I did not like
them because my mother was a reflection of that for me.
One day I told my mother that it would not
happen to me. And although this had consequences in my life,
I decided my future thanks to those experiences that I
(04:25):
experienced from a very young age, and she has. After
twenty two years of working in the domestic field, she
and a group of domestic workers formed a lat esperanza,
or the hope to educate other women domestic workers about
their rights as workers. But it was at the age
of seventeen that she was able to learn about her
rights and workers rights within her church community and she
(04:47):
became confident in her voice to talk about her frustrations
and difficulties in her job right. The same year last
Ranzo was born, Batista was invited to represent Mexico in
the first ever Latin American Domestic Workers Conference and Ago
Talk Columbia, which included eleven other countries. So in nine
after she was asked to join the staff meetings at Sinco's,
which was a part of the u N Organizations, which
(05:09):
where she was working on the maintenance staff. She was
able to be a part of the actual staff and
was able to grow in her leadership and her educational
efforts after the fact, and it wasn't too much longer
that she started the Center for Support and Training for
Domestics Employees or the c a c H in two thousand.
She quote has promoted the human and labor rights of
(05:30):
domestic workers and carried out the unionization process of this
labor sector, which was formed on August or the National
Union of Domestic Workers, also known as s I n
A C t r a h O Sinatra hole UH,
the first National Union of domestic Workers in Mexico, and
she has been working to continue to bring light to
(05:51):
the difficulties as well as the mistreatment of so many
domestic workers in Mexico and around the world. Only is
she the founder and director of the c a c
e H, but she also was General Secretariat of the
Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers are Conloctrojo
and the Regional Coordinator of the International Network of Domestic Workers,
(06:13):
the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the International Federation
of Domestic Workers f I t H as well. And
hopefully we're getting these acronyms somewhat correct. Yeah, well, well
they get to connect acronyms. We just don't know how
people say them necessarily. There you go. The amount of
work and continued fighting Bautista has been doing for domestic
(06:36):
workers cannot be understated. And when she was asked what
she felt was her contribution to society, she said, quote,
make the invisible visible is the model of the organization
that I preside over. I think that has been my
contribution to make private work public today, make visible what
we domestic workers do and our precarious situations, so that
it is an issue that is on the public agenda,
(06:57):
but above all be testimony of change that with what
one has in hand, one can make a difference. I
believe that I have also contributed to the development of
the International Standard for Domestic Workers Convention one eight nine,
and I asked that its ratification be the contribution of
my Mexican government. Right, we'll talk about that in a bit.
But she has, she has done all of this, and
(07:17):
she's been working with governments, like she said, an organizations
to create a change for domestic workers everywhere. She was
involved in creating the Convention of one nine of the
International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in two thousand eleven,
which addressed the issues of domestic workers having quote decent
work as well as the rights of workers, which was
approved by that convention. And again, yeah, she's been pushing
(07:38):
that forward in the government. And yes, she's been honored
for her work, including accolades such as the Amelia Galanda
Award from the Federal District Human Rights Commission for her
outstanding work in defending and promoting women's rights and promoting
gender quality in Mexico, and she also earned that same
award in the Medal of Merit later. I think it's
that eighteen. The first award was early two thousand's, so yeah,
(08:02):
she's definitely doing things. Oh yeah, also was awarded the
Human Rights Award from the Friedrich Ebert Stiff Sung in Berlin, Germany,
and the National Prize for Equality and Non Discrimination ordered
by the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, and was recognized
in the BBC as well as Forbes magazine for being
just an overall powerhouse. Right, she has done a lot
(08:24):
of things that she continues to pop up on list
because of our organization and her hard work. Another quote
she may specifically to the BBC, which she was named
BBC one one. She said, quote, Changing the world means
changing the conditions of millions of domestic workers, mostly women
who work at home while others developed professionally. This social
(08:45):
inequality it will only end when domestic workers gets the
recognition it deserves. And absolutely um and we love to
see it. We love to see people being change. And yeah,
Mexico is a big hub for domestic work in general.
So oh cheers and we salute you because you're doing
some amazing things and can't wait to see how many
(09:05):
more things come from her amazing work. Completely agreed and
as always listeners. If you have any suggestions for someone
or an organization we should highlight in this segment, please
send them our away. You can email us at Stuff Media,
mom Stuff at i heeart media dot com. You can
find us on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcasts, or on
Instagram and Stuff I'll Never Told to you. Thanks as
(09:27):
always start a super producer Christina who was also a powerhouse.
Oh yes, and thanks to you for listening Stuff Whenever
Told the protection of iHeartRadio. For more podcast on my
Heart Radio is the I Hear Radio app, Apple podcast,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff.
I never told you production if I hire radio Annie,
welcome back, yes to you as well. It's good. This
is our second recording but in one day. But I
(00:26):
really felt like I needed to do a welcome back again, yes,
because I felt right. It did feel right. And you know,
we're only seeing each other over these virtual screens, but
it's still good to see you. Yes, our recordings have
gotten longer and longer just because I keep asking you
conversational stuff instead of working, which is probably not helpful.
(00:47):
But hey, yeah, lots of laughs have been had. I
haven't talked to somebody in so long. Like, my throat
is hurting and my face hurts from smiling. But this
is good. Pain, Okay, good, I'm like, go no, I'm
I love it. Anything new you've been doing since the
New Year, because you know that's supposed to be a thing. Well,
(01:08):
I sent you a picture I got a galaxy projector yeah,
to ask you about that. It was pretty fancy. Yeah,
I really like it. And I've been being the biggest
of nerds and I'll like put it on and I'll
listen to like classical music and read fan fiction. It
has been the best and I am trying to stretch
more so I did a whole stretch session last night.
(01:31):
It felt really good, but I can tell my body
was you should have been doing this. You've waited two years.
I googled some health thing that was happening with me
and they're like, you need to stretch, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
So I got this is a present to myself. I
(01:53):
got chocolate hot chocolate bombs. I was so excited and
I made one and it was so and diclomatic. It
just sung to the bottom. A couple of marshmallows popped up.
I was like, oh, marshmallows. And then that was And
then I was like, I don't know if I didn't
have the milk hot enough. I mean, it's pretty hot,
but I also didn't want to burn the milk, you
(02:14):
know that situation. So it was really sad. I need
I want to tell me what I did wrong. Anyway,
That's not what we're talking about today, No, no, no,
but we are back with our segments Women around the World,
and yeah, there's been a lot of news about strikes
and unions being formed all around the country. All around
(02:35):
the world, which has been really inspiring to see, and
it's an exciting time to watch as employees and workers
are coming together to demand better pay, better benefits, and
a call to just overhaul a system that is based
on results in dollars over the people in quality of
work and quality of conditions. So it is really exciting
to see and inspiring to see. So we wanted to
talk about a woman who's been fighting to better work
(02:58):
situations and right for domestic workers. Uh fifty five year
old Marcellina Baptista, who has been a part of this
activism in Mexico since she was seventeen years old, so
she's been working though way before then and continues to
be recognized for her hard work and passion. And just
to go ahead and let y'all know, we're getting most
of this information and quotes from translated sites. Google Translator
(03:20):
has been our friend, so it's obviously a little different
from what she's actually saying or what the sites are
actually saying when it comes to the Spanish translation versus
the English translation, so bear with us, but we had
to celebrate such an amazing woman. Bautista started working as
a domestic worker in Mexico City at the age of fourteen,
leaving behind her family and her education from her home
(03:42):
area of Tierra Colorado Pascal, the na Chislon Wahaka area.
So sorry if I messed that up, y'all. I'm really
trying and I can't roll my rs, So don't hate me.
That's that's skilled for sure. Um. She talked about her
upbringing in the difficulties of just being a girl slash
woman in her town, as well as when she left
to start providing for herself. She was one of twelve
(04:04):
children and helped with the care of her other siblings
until she left. In interview with You and Women, she said,
this violence towards the women I knew are my cousins,
even though they are the customs, I did not like
them because my mother was a reflection of that for me.
One day I told my mother that it would not
happen to me. And although this had consequences in my life,
I decided my future thanks to those experiences that I
(04:25):
experienced from a very young age, and she has. After
twenty two years of working in the domestic field, she
and a group of domestic workers formed a lat esperanza,
or the hope to educate other women domestic workers about
their rights as workers. But it was at the age
of seventeen that she was able to learn about her
rights and workers rights within her church community and she
(04:47):
became confident in her voice to talk about her frustrations
and difficulties in her job right. The same year last
Ranzo was born, Batista was invited to represent Mexico in
the first ever Latin American Domestic Workers Conference and Ago
Talk Columbia, which included eleven other countries. So in nine
after she was asked to join the staff meetings at Sinco's,
which was a part of the u N Organizations, which
(05:09):
where she was working on the maintenance staff. She was
able to be a part of the actual staff and
was able to grow in her leadership and her educational
efforts after the fact, and it wasn't too much longer
that she started the Center for Support and Training for
Domestics Employees or the c a c H in two thousand.
She quote has promoted the human and labor rights of
(05:30):
domestic workers and carried out the unionization process of this
labor sector, which was formed on August or the National
Union of Domestic Workers, also known as s I n
A C t r a h O Sinatra hole UH,
the first National Union of domestic Workers in Mexico, and
she has been working to continue to bring light to
(05:51):
the difficulties as well as the mistreatment of so many
domestic workers in Mexico and around the world. Only is
she the founder and director of the c a c
e H, but she also was General Secretariat of the
Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers are Conloctrojo
and the Regional Coordinator of the International Network of Domestic Workers,
(06:13):
the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the International Federation
of Domestic Workers f I t H as well. And
hopefully we're getting these acronyms somewhat correct. Yeah, well, well
they get to connect acronyms. We just don't know how
people say them necessarily. There you go. The amount of
work and continued fighting Bautista has been doing for domestic
(06:36):
workers cannot be understated. And when she was asked what
she felt was her contribution to society, she said, quote,
make the invisible visible is the model of the organization
that I preside over. I think that has been my
contribution to make private work public today, make visible what
we domestic workers do and our precarious situations, so that
it is an issue that is on the public agenda,
(06:57):
but above all be testimony of change that with what
one has in hand, one can make a difference. I
believe that I have also contributed to the development of
the International Standard for Domestic Workers Convention one eight nine,
and I asked that its ratification be the contribution of
my Mexican government. Right, we'll talk about that in a bit.
But she has, she has done all of this, and
(07:17):
she's been working with governments, like she said, an organizations
to create a change for domestic workers everywhere. She was
involved in creating the Convention of one nine of the
International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in two thousand eleven,
which addressed the issues of domestic workers having quote decent
work as well as the rights of workers, which was
approved by that convention. And again, yeah, she's been pushing
(07:38):
that forward in the government. And yes, she's been honored
for her work, including accolades such as the Amelia Galanda
Award from the Federal District Human Rights Commission for her
outstanding work in defending and promoting women's rights and promoting
gender quality in Mexico, and she also earned that same
award in the Medal of Merit later. I think it's
that eighteen. The first award was early two thousand's, so yeah,
(08:02):
she's definitely doing things. Oh yeah, also was awarded the
Human Rights Award from the Friedrich Ebert Stiff Sung in Berlin, Germany,
and the National Prize for Equality and Non Discrimination ordered
by the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, and was recognized
in the BBC as well as Forbes magazine for being
just an overall powerhouse. Right, she has done a lot
(08:24):
of things that she continues to pop up on list
because of our organization and her hard work. Another quote
she may specifically to the BBC, which she was named
BBC one one. She said, quote, Changing the world means
changing the conditions of millions of domestic workers, mostly women
who work at home while others developed professionally. This social
(08:45):
inequality it will only end when domestic workers gets the
recognition it deserves. And absolutely um and we love to
see it. We love to see people being change. And yeah,
Mexico is a big hub for domestic work in general.
So oh cheers and we salute you because you're doing
some amazing things and can't wait to see how many
(09:05):
more things come from her amazing work. Completely agreed and
as always listeners. If you have any suggestions for someone
or an organization we should highlight in this segment, please
send them our away. You can email us at Stuff Media,
mom Stuff at i heeart media dot com. You can
find us on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcasts, or on
Instagram and Stuff I'll Never Told to you. Thanks as
(09:27):
always start a super producer Christina who was also a powerhouse.
Oh yes, and thanks to you for listening Stuff Whenever
Told the protection of iHeartRadio. For more podcast on my
Heart Radio is the I Hear Radio app, Apple podcast,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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