clear that the Equal are inadequate.
actually TUC's position is implemented.
current thinking.
THE TUC has produced a very good paper on positive action which sets out the sort of things which are contained in positive action Affirmative or positive action is legally enforced there. Companies 'all THREE WEEKS ago the TUC Congress resolved 'to pursue vigorously a campaign for real equality for women ... as an integral part of the trade unions' fight against the industrial and economic policies of the Tory government - In order to prevent women taking the brunt of the current recession'.
It endorsed moves 'to investigate forms of positive action in women's education, training and omployment as a means of shifting ontrenched patterns of discrimination', and called on the TUC General Council to present detalled proposnia for positive action' to the 1981 congress.
in November the TUC will be holding a conference to draw up model agreements for use by trade unionists. It is Pay and Sex Discrimination trumpeted by the last Labour government as the solution Since these laws came into effect, women's wages have declined by 2.1 per cent in relation Women are losing jobs at twice the rate of men. Positive action is needed now in the workplaces to make sure the Here ANNA COOTE, who seconded the TUC resolution on behalf of the National Union of Journalists, explains its employing CONCE with the government have to analyse their workforce at all levels in what is available in the local labour pool.
If the two are not in line then the company has to submit plans to remedy the situation.
Its federal licence other withdrawn if it Acts organisations that comply.
discrimination you class action action for a whole group of women who could be discriminated against does It is also written into the law that if you have a case of sex. voluntary can take negotiated - in other words unions and have been At the moment the TUC and the National Council for Civil Liberties are going for alculen between trade factory that would be within the scope of specifically the Sex Discrimination Act.
This could include special foot the visits to schools to meet groups of girls on their own to tell them about jobs in an engineering For Int like; advertisements in publications with a temale readership saying that female applicants espécially welcome; enapply to get their friends to apply;
and so on.
You also have to ask if the qualifications required for job are really necessary. The Greyhound Bus Company the USA was taken to court because employees had to be 5 inches tall. This qualification was clearly discriminatory and unnecessary, and as part of the settlement they had to agree to a positive action alming to get per cent of women drivers in their training schools within five years.
This is just one example progress towards the declared goal would then have to be monitored.
Most people campaigning on positive action have decided that there is not much point in changing the law at this stage. Right now it's better to get union agreements.
Principle We also have to be aware that while the unions may agree to the principle of positive action, the men aren't going to bother unless there is pressure from the women. They have to the principle to themselves The Transport & General Workers Union and the General & Municipal Workers are setting up discrimination committees the National Union of Employees LUW has seven women on its executive. These may be small changes, but they are a start.
----- pull-quotes -----
DOIN THE LABOUR