Thursday morning, down to the conference fresh and early, giving out John McDonnell's new women's manifesto and leaflets for the Labour Representation Committee fringe meeting at lunchtime. First business in conference was the NUT's resolution on Sexist Language, Sexist Bullying and Sexual...
Into the second day for only the second time (RMT's women's conference was a one-day affair until year), the Executive reported on progress with last year's resolutions. One had been ruled out of order in a heavy-handed manner, others have been "progressed" or "linked to other files" or what have...
RMT's national women's conference took place on Friday and Saturday last week (2nd and 3rd March), in Doncaster. RMT members can watch the whole thing by webcast by logging on to the members' section. There were 25 delegates - that's about average, but less than there could potentially be due to...
TUC Women's Conference should be accessible to any woman trade unionist elected to respresent her union. But how can it be, when childcare is provided only during formal conference hours and only for pre-school kids?!
A couple of years back, I circulated a letter around TUC Women's Conference...
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I've recently produced a women's newsletter for my union branch, RMT Stratford no.1. Some of the issues are specific to where we work, but I think there is enough of general interest to justify posting it here.
I'd be interested...
At Wednesday's RMT Women's Advisory Committee, we:
It's groundhog day on equalities representation, as Congress once again debates and rejects the dangerously revolutionary proposals that the TUC's Women's, LGBT, Black Workers' and Disabled Workers' Conferences should have the right to:
By Jim Denham Even in the midst of bitter industrial struggles, it is not uncommon to hear white trade unionists expressing racist views. In the 1970s the National Front could boast a number of shop stewards among its membership — including in the British Leyland Longbridge plant, then the largest and arguably best organised factory in Britain. Nevertheless, trade unions are vitally important in the fight against racism and fascism. Trade union campaigns and industrial struggles that emphasise the common class interests of all workers can at least begin to break down prejudice. The great...
The hot topic of TUC Women's Conference was the gender pay gap – the fact that, three decades on from legislation supposedly guaranteeing ‘equal pay for work of equal value’, women still earn significantly less than men. Just a few days previously, the government’s ‘Women And Work Commission’ had...
by Sally Lopez Much criticism of last month’s Women and Work Commission’s report on the “gender pay and opportunities gap” has focused on its failure to recommend compulsory equal pay audits for employers. This is no surpise. As long ago as September, the Guardian reported that the commission’s chair, ex-T&G bureaucrat Margaret Prosser, “rules out the mandatory equal pay reviews called for by the unions”. Heaven forbid that companies should be forced to do anything, and the hand-picked list of Blairite business, local government and right-wing trade union hacks that produced the report were...
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