tainly stimulated debate on women aown ine pits Mary has had a worthwine if exhausting time.
will be visit long remembered in these parts whatever the views of the too 'IF MINING is not safe for women, it's not safe Abortion trial reopens in Spain abortion the Yorkshire area was highly successful and caused a major stir in the local labour movement, in particular, the Nationa Union of Mineworkers. economic situation women hardest of all.
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legal abortions methods of changing carried were used. THIS YEAR'S WOMEN'S TUC took place against a background of a worsening which is hitting from unemployment in greater proportions than men. Motions for a week, for encouraging young women into non-traditional jobs and for no discrimination in redundancies were all But where was the action to implement all these things? It was tucked away at the end in a paragraph in the report supporting the Labour Party action for women's rights on 5 Some delegates attended a fringe meeting called by the action committee for a woman's right to work. Mary Zins spoke about positive action as a policy for confronting the role o women in the reserve army of labour and La whole. It is becoming urgent to go out and build the 5 June event as the next step in the fightback first time in its history, the Women's TUC took a discussion and resoluacknowledging that this a trade union and a sexual violence class issue. The resolution put by the Institute of Professional Civil Servants called for a con demnation of police attitudes and for written statements to be permitted in court where a woman is unable to testify as occurred in the The Women's TUC has not always been a It did play a major role in fighting for action to defend abortion rights; this year an emergency resolution in defence of doctors threatened with prosecution for iland against back the abortion act was But at the end of the day - or rather at the very beginning of the agenda - the Women's TUC voted, as it does every year to give itself as little power as possible. This year, again, a motion calling for five resolutions from the Women's TUC to go automatically to the TUC conference was rejected. Cries of short cuts and the danger of women being patronisec Anna Coote, moving the motion from the National Union of Journalists, declared tha women have waited too long to have a real say inside the trade union movement and that, yes, it's high time we found a few short cuts if we are to get anywhere. Women are a huge force in the trade union movement.
A movement which listens to and acts on our demands is immeasurably strengthened and it's a pity that the Women's TUC insists on denying women the chance to show the Rally & trade union speakers with major politica
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