THE fiftieth Women's TUC takes place in weekend and information centre have been mostly women, will discuss the issues that concern women trade unionists.
Although decisions taken at this conference are not binding on the General Council of the TUC, a 1978 resolution calling on the TUC to organise a demonstration against restrictive abortion laws led to the highly successful demonstration on 28 October last year.
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delegates fróm the National Union of Journalists, spoke Challenge about this conterence.
"The attacks on women's rights by the present government will be an important issue. Many facilities that women have won over the last decade are being taken the proposed by the Tories, law it will be much more difficult for return to women to pregnancy. Bering the sack simply for being They could pregnant if they have working in that job for a short while.
*They intend to previous months regulations that TENLIICES dismissal, including on grounds of Women particularly affected by this change as domestic responsibilities they are not as likely to have such long service records as men.
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Bill, becomes work after end the grounds of only been the conference, double the born in this country. service Protective unfair 'protects' women certain jobs, would debate. Many trade mean which Opportunity proposed. laws, NEW TECHNOLOGY Day School The IMG is holding a day school on the new will include car industry, office telecommunications, and programming. Plenary sessions will cover the general implications of new technology, implications, and nuclear The school is open to all IMG members and and will take place on Saturday March 15th. Further details from affirmative Against the Tories forcing employees, WOMEN IN ACTION: A newspaper technology for women in the Unions. Orders Kate Upper Street, London N1. Price which encourage discrimination on sex, colour, are also to be discussed at particularly regard to the proposed exclusion of husband and fiancés of women not Given legislation, which doing will also be a big unions are an opposed to the repeal of protective Equal You Commission has St, Kate does not think that the only By P M Grant, ASLEF Paddington DON PULLEN, assistant general secretary of the rail told a of his unior members on 23 February that Rail was saying that 'sale the century" service would made finance a pay settlement.
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He explained the Inte '80s' plan proposed a condi onanies working conditions which wow do le laree scar redundancies. For instance all driver's assistants jobs • were 10 0.e ASLEF assistant general secretary went on to say thal Brinsn Kail was deing reason for this is because the trade union leaders are out to protect men's orivleges at the expensevo women — though this clearly part 'If you take the example of action in America, where women have been fighting to work in the mines with materials like lead because these are the higher paid areas, then I think there are some problems.
'The emphasis should be on employers to improve conditions of work and pay for all women having to enter those dangerous jobsEveryone should be st. They going down the mines should be fully automated. Money should be invested in using to cut out doing hazardous work entirely.' Holman will be selling Women in Action at the conference a new newspaper • aiming to take feminist issues to the factory floor.
'A paper for working women in the unions has never been tackled very important that women should have a paper that represents their views, where they can exchange experiences at the base of the trade union movement, and find out what the officials think.
the interest working women have shown in the campaign against John Corrie's anti-abortion Bill Women in Action should find enthusiastic audience women in the labour movement.
can order copies Sisterwrite Bookshop, Upper London NI if you're not going to the Women's TUC. pro-choice campaigners hoped would be debated instead has not got ou of committee in time.
Robert Tory MP for Croydon North east, has Private Bill on child maintenance debated on Friday, but since he is a confirmed antiabortionist nels key u drop his Bill or hurry through so that Corrie can get more time. Vote Given last Friday's vote include the phrase 'substantial risk of injury to the woman's healtn i the grounds for abortior POTO-CHOIC valague. cannot afford complacent The votes of male.MPs in Parliament cannot allowed to cause suffering will turn to backstreet abortion. Pro-choice should tun out this Friday to show once more their opposition to the very last time that John Corrie's controversial Bill allowed