Building Bargaining Power: How Domestic Workers in Lebanon made a courageous step to form a union

In January 2015, 200 women and men from Ethiopia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and beyond founded a Union for domestic workers in Lebanon. The Founding Congress was both a moving and historical occasion: this was the birth of the first Union for domestic workers in the Arab region, paving the way for similar initiatives in other countries in the Middle East.