Ciceron, Angela Gail2025-09-172025-09-172025-09-152025-09-15http://hdl.handle.net/1993/39387The rise of neoliberalism in Canada in the 1980s has intensified a specific formation of precarious employment which disproportionately affects female, racialized workers, including Filipino immigrant women. Historically, this has been true for the garment industry of Winnipeg, which has long employed female migrant workers from various ethnocultural communities, including Filipino migrant women workers. Previous literature on precarious employment points to the positive effects of unions in improving the precarious conditions disproportionally faced by racialized and gendered workers, but is complicated by barriers to unionization faced by these workers and recent declines in unionization rates in Canada. However, in 2021, garment industry workers in Winnipeg’s Canada Goose plants successfully organized and formed the Canada Goose Workers’ Union under Workers United Canada Council. Using a qualitative, community-based approach in collaboration with Canada Goose Workers’ Union, this research aims to study unionization as a community-based intervention against the precarious employment of racialized immigrant women workers in the garment industry through a case study of the recently formed Canada Goose Workers’ Union in Winnipeg. Rooted in a feminist political economy (FPE) approach, the objective is to document the union certification process, and to understand whether unionization and collective bargaining have affected the degree of precarity that Filipino immigrant women workers tend to disproportionately experience within a neoliberal context. This study found that social locations such as gender, race, and citizenship were fundamental to shaping the precarious conditions experienced by the workers at Canada Goose, which compelled them to begin a union drive in 2019. The results of this research point to the role that unions play in determining the conditions of work and life of Filipino immigrant women. Unions therefore must employ an intersectional approach to organizing and representing immigrant women workers, whose identities play a fundamental role in shaping their economic conditions in Canada.engunionizationimmigrationprecarious workpolitical economy