meets in Scarborough. A well researched report entitled Women in published by the Women's Advisory Committee to It Alternative brings points Calll paigns the Tories werre eccicd ideological to nome lust the time when Women HCCO their jobs Today CCaSIle ped.
time with little job SCuLIty or pension rights.
'that out of direct of lack of employment in eutilc groups. West InCalis. peI cenl ot.
Only 9 perCOll WULLC!. work with Moslem women women do so.
to home working rates of pay.
Black the declining industry rates for these percent, for white women.
what report tells Bet1981 among the Labour Market has been is a response to feminist Economic Strategy views it.
percent.
In the East Midlands this was a staggering percent! When work Scance voue Worlc al C held back from breaking with traditional jobs.
The report succeeds in WOnCIS ICCUN TUC policies to meet them. It explains the main points of the Alternative Economic Strategy (AES), sidestepping incomes policy with talk of creating 'a fairer climate for collective bargaining'.
will satisfy some with its references to men doing domestic work. But it is unlikely to pacify sections of the feminist lobby who want more than Nurses words. complaints about union officials who SLalC u LC way o acuol to change women's lot are IUL. however. lookea at And no mention is made of the hoovel WUlLICI who battled against local AUEW leaders to defend their jobs.
You'd never knot reading the report the predomillantiy female workforce in the Whs was mised. tor seven months by the TUC.
Tuc is dressrd up. We the TUC is dressed up. told 1021 TUC 'urged the government to amend the Equal Pay Act Sex Discrimination Act' and ran a 'concerted campaign to reduce the working week'. Funny, we hadn't noticed these mass campaigns!
The report is weakest on what unions should do The appendix on positive Secretaries añd Shorthand Typists General Clerks Packers, Bottlers, Canners and Fillers action explains: 'In the first instance positive action is most likely to suc ceed in a workplace which is strongly organised and has a tradition of joint union-management committees'.
True, unions
achieve a lot through collaboration with councils and nationalised industries.
rent what abut the de percent time women workers employer at firms with less than 100 people, and the bart time workers in concerns of less than 25? we rely veractie on the employers to do the right thing here, particulary in a recession!
The TUC has to come behind a campaign to change the law to torce employers lo cicalo positive action programHICS Penalties should be imLower paid groups where women predominate Proportion of women in ocupational groups with average earnings Other Typists Sewing Machinists Costing and Accounting Clerks Repetitive Catering. Cleaning and Assemblers Hairdressing Workers posed The those who refuse. TUC report fights shy of pushing the only measure that can ouauiducaly CSauCe things for women black workers this country.
The gestures to feminism and facts in the pamphlet are not enough We. need action. If this disturbs the cosy relationship between the TUC Advisory the Tecihen so be " the Feminists Party have noi shied away and neither should they.
start TUC'S the should back the Association of University Teachers resolution.
This proposal would guarantee that five resolutions go automatically to TUC Congress every year. This may only be the start of the disturbance but it is an assault long overdue. Shop Assistants Inel tion wally with coln.
If successful, this would mean massive wage rise of 40 percent and a. boost for morale throughout the Leeds district.
ON 26 JANUARY workers at Daleside Hadden, a Nottingham dying and finishing firm, dau anesooe mnei chime osiaono acept imposition 168-hour continental shift system and the tearing The scheme wonts scheme would compulsors Ileall *weekend working, overtime ,payments, effectively lower wages fol hours ciorked an the destruction workers' social and family life.
The sacked workers have made it clear that they prepared to negotiate new shifts. But negotiation not the style of Daleside Hadden's management who have paid no wage rise THE LAUNCH of BL's new miade asto bas greeted by a walkout of 4000 neart WOrKe the Pressed Steel Fisher plant Cowley asi week.
The dispute caused by management attempts to 'de-man' 14 people off the Rover and Ambassador line, resulted in an overwhelming vote to without a lead from senior stewards.
Demanning is vital to management attempts to control break the organisation of the shop floor.
A PSF worker explains;
•We arrived for work Monday night but everybody knew the day shift had walked out. Demanning will affect all of us. They want more work :from less people.
'So our section would not start work without a meeting.
'Our steward recommenaca we go nome as well as the day shift. We close subsidiaries La new conAckroyd have OULIL CLENKS with unionists.
9 Anderson Street, Rd, for four employ full for pockel LOLCY The blacking Daleside CUDEUTICIS official of the Na• %111 Workers tingham's Centre.
messages Daleside tee, Eugene Demanning and the miracle voted on it and went home No voted against.
'A mass meeting on Wednesday morning decided because the i4 back blokes were put back on the line. This was a big vic1ory Management were scared of the Maestro being stopped they tried it again on Thursday, • blokes were taken out of the paint shop and again the day night paint shop shift went home 'We had follomins mass meeting the Monday which the senior steward recommended a return to work on the agreement that Lalk. continue with management. The recommendanon was ac cepted, but whatever the TGWU officials sf ree to, the mood .the workforce detinitely opposed to demanning.
'The trouble Is no over yet.
HWV Socialist Action 18 March 1983
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