LAST WEEK'S TUC recognised that it needs more than words to give women a fair deal. What is needed IS action. positive action. That is, the trade union movement should vomen to get jobs The TUC "to give particular attention to identifying and opposing any barriers to the participation of girls and women in present or future training and employment programmes.' implement the Women in Trade Unions and the recommendations positive action, recognised that the present Sex Discrimination Act is not adequate.
Free collective bargaining has not achieved equality for women in the workplace; now there has to be a campaign to change the law. The delegates strategies are needed to encourage women to and actively participate unions.
This point was brought forcibly home to conference when bank Cameron presented the TUC president, Alan Fisher, with a shopping bag. It was her way of protesting that women are 'stereotyped' by men.
In a speech which as Ivy Cameron herself said would not have been made twenty years ago, sne accused male delegates o leaving their wives went ott to union meetings 'Men cover their language at meetings! she said, selves sound important.
Laude that this vear's Tud. reaffirmed that 'women as well as men have a fundamental right to work', meant more than just words.