THE health women make up just over three-quarters of the membership. tional executive. There were three women on the 29-strong NEC, but defeated in recent elections.
be re-elected, says: (ere which women's views ought to be represented by both women and men, such as part-timers, cuts in community services, as well as pay and equal opportunities, because we are the fected.' their gross under-representation, COHSE's structure or policies active enough, so we cannot complain too loudly about not being adequately represented.
tive in the union, making up 24 per cent of branch secretaries and 25 per cent of annual conference delegates.
on the national executive are reserved for women. Among the gains made by this form of affirmative action is that an additional two women have since been elected on to the NUPE executive.
service union COHSE, in which now has an all-male naall of them were Norah Baldock, one of the women who failed to are Many issuco onl ones most But she tends to blame women themselves for rather than 'We are just not Yet in spite of all the obstacles, women are acIn the public employees' union NUPE, six seats Support When the Talbot Action Committee called meeting to assess support TrOM olne workers' mood was mistakeable Shop stewards Govan shipyards, Rolls Kovci and elsewhere all urged Talbot workers to 'take up the cudgel', to 'go into was repeated that Linwood was where 'the line had to be drawn'. Hackney* Kensington & Chelsea Newham Greenwich* RATE RISES 52.5 52.0 51.7